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JURIES ACT - SECT 40

Different issues may be tried by same jury

    (1)     Where a jury has tried, or been drawn to try, a civil issue, the Court may, if no objection is made on behalf of the plaintiff or defendant to another civil issue:

        (a)     try that other issue with that jury; or

        (b)     order the names of any jurors to the withdrawal of whom the parties consent, or who are justly challenged or excused by the Court, to be set aside and other jurors to be selected in their stead and try that other issue with the residue of the original jury and with such jurors so selected as appear and are approved as indifferent.

    (2)     The selection of jurors for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) shall be made according to the procedure set out in section 39 for striking a jury for the trial of a civil issue but so that the numbers "12" and "4" appearing in that section are replaced respectively by numbers bearing to those numbers respectively the same ratio as the number of jurors to be selected bears to the number "4".



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