* How Federal Grand Juries Work NPR.

Juries were appointed by lot.

Juries only decide questions of fact ; they have no role in criminal sentencing in criminal cases or awarding damages in libel cases.

Juries are selected from a jury panel which is picked at random by the county registrar from the electoral register.

The principal statute regulating the selection, obligations and conduct of juries is the Juries Act 1976 as amended by the Civil Law ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 2008, which scrapped the upper age limit of 70.

Juries are not paid, nor do they receive travel expenses.

New Zealand previously required jury verdicts to be passed unanimously, but since the passing of the Criminal Procedure Bill in 2009 the Juries Act 1981 has permitted verdicts to be passed by a majority of one less than the full jury ( that is an 11-1 or a 10-1 majority ) under certain circumstances.

Juries have granted acquittals in 15-20 % of cases, compared with less than 1 % in cases decided by judges.

Juries may be dismissed and skeptical juries have been dismissed on the verge of verdicts, and acquittals are frequently overturned by higher courts.

The Abolition of Juries Act put paid to lay participation in 1969.

Juries sit in a few civil cases, in particular, defamation and cases involving the state.

Juries also sit in coroner's courts for more contentious inquests.

Juries are not used in trials.

Juries are composed of jurors ( also sometimes known as jurymen ), who are by definition layman finders of fact, not professionals.

Juries are most common in common law adversarial-system jurisdictions.

Juries are almost never used in civil cases outside the United States and Canada.

Juries, usually 6 or 12 men, were an " ancient institution " in some parts of England, (" Henry II " 286 ) at the same time as Members consisted of representatives of the basic units of local government — hundreds ( an administrative sub-division of the shire, embracing several vills ) and villages.

In 1730, the British Parliament passed the Bill for Better Regulation of Juries.

Juries are often justified because they leaven the law with community norms.

Juries are not used in other criminal and civil cases.

Juries are less common in court systems outside the Anglo-American common law tradition.

Juries were replaced by a tribunal of a professional judges and two lay assessors that were dependable party actors.

Juries have also refused to convict due to the perceived injustice of a law in general, or the perceived injustice of the way the law is applied in particular cases.

Juries were composed primarily of " laymen " from the local community.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

Protests from governors and intendants passed unheeded, and the parsimonious policy of the company probably let loose Indian insurrections that brought ruin to the company.

* 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100, 000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' Politics, Symbols and the Public Sphere: The Protests against Nuclear Weapons in Britain and West Germany, 1958-1963 ', Zeithistorische Forschungen, 2, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

The ideology itself, however, came into conflict on both sides of the spectrum with Maoists as well as progressive liberals, culminating with other social factors to cause the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.

* 1989 – Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.

Protests by those calling for more autonomy from France have become increasingly vocal.

Protests in 1996, 1997 and 2000 all ended in violence.

* 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide.

Protests were made at the possibility of including Windsor, Slough and Eton in the authority.

Protests and demonstrations by Fanmi Lavalas continued in 2009.

Protests were made to Birn's employer, calling her " a member of the perpetrator race " ( she is German-born ), prompting an official investigation of her .( p.

* 1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer.

* 2010 – Protests take place in 60 Canadian cities against the prorogation of the 40th Canadian Parliament.

Protests against the lettres de cachet were made continually by the parlement of Paris and by the provincial parlements, and often also by the Estates-General.

Protests against the election results turned violent on the evening of July 1, and protesters sacked the MPRP headquarters in downtown Ulaanbaatar.

Protests were planned in Saltash, by the historical boundary between Devon and Cornwall since the 10th century.

An iconic image of pacifism came out of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 with the " Tank Man ", where one protester stood in nonviolent opposition to a column of tanks.

Protests were voiced on grounds of content and because it meant that Southern Africa was thus out of line with other English-speaking countries.

Protests turned into riots on 2 June 1967, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, visited West Berlin.

In the late 19th century the clergy had shown themselves to be a powerful political force in Iran initiating the Tobacco Protests against a concession to a foreign ( British ) interest.

In Turkey, the most prominent and active secularist organization is Atatürk Thought Association ( ADD ), which is credited for organizing the Republic Protests – demonstrations in the four largest cities in Turkey in 2007, where over 2 million people, mostly women, defended their concern in and support of secularist principles introduced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.