Proactive-release - Jury Amendment Rules 2020 [pdf, 872 KB]
...of jurors to occur from another part of the court because many courts do not have rooms large enough to accommodate all jurors while adhering to physical distancing requirements. The specific amendments are described below. 4. The Amendment Rules add new definitions of physical distancing requirements and quarantinable disease. The latter definition has the same meaning as in the Health Act 1956. 5. The amendments authorise the preliminary ballot to be undertaken in the presence of some jur...