From HSC Legal Studies Juries - overview

A jury can be used in non-criminal cases, including:

• defamation cases;
• cases in the District Court at the request of a party and subject to the Judge agreeing that it is in the interests of justice to have a jury involved;
• cases in the Supreme Court at the request of a party and subject to the Judge agreeing that it is in the interests of justice to have a jury involved;
• coronial inquests in limited circumstances.

Usually, a jury in a civil case is only four people, but the size of a jury in a civil case in the Supreme Court can be increased to 12 people if a party to the case asks the Court to do so. A jury in a coronial inquest is six people.

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