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T1 Legal Interpreter for the Jury: the role of the Clerk of the Court in Spain
A1 Jimeno Bulnes, Mar
A1 Hans, Valerie P.
K1 Jury
K1 Spanish jury
K1 Reasoned verdicts
K1 Clerk
K1 Spain
K1 Lay participation
K1 Comparative legal systems
K1 Criminal law
K1 Derecho penal
AB The Clerk of the Court (secretario judicial) in Spanish provincial courts is an important legal actor in the proceedings of the modern Spanish jury, introduced in 1995. In contrast to the general verdicts of traditional common-law juries, Spanish juries must answer an often lengthy list of specific questions, and must provide the reasoning supporting these responses. Early on, many Spanish juries found the task of providing legally acceptable responses and reasons challenging. Because the law permits the clerk to enter the deliberation room to assist the jury in its writing of the verdict, the clerk has come to act as a principal intermediary between the formal demands of the law and lay citizens serving on the jury. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the role of the Clerk of the Court in Spanish jury proceedings, including the jury selection phase and the verdict writing process. Drawing on interviews with Clerks of the Court, we find that clerks’ views of appropriate intervention and clerks’ practices differ significantly across jurisdictions.
PB Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
SN 2079-5971
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4667
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4667
LA eng
NO Proyecto de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Economía, 2016-2018, UN PASO ADELANTE EN LA CONSOLIDACION DEL ESPACIO JUDICIAL EUROPEO Y SU APLICACION PRACTICA EN ESPAÑA: VISION DESDE EL PROCESO CIVIL Y PENAL (DER2015-71418-P)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 22-nov-2024