Jury Act 1995

The sheriff must from time to time (as the sheriff considers necessary) select for summons enough prospective jurors to enable the selection of juries for trials starting in the relevant jury district in the jury service period concerned.

The persons to be summoned must be selected—

by a computer programmed to make a random selection of names from the revised list of prospective jurors; or

by random selection of cards bearing the names of, or numbers representing, the persons whose names are on the revised list of prospective jurors.

However, the selection may be made from the unrevised list of prospective jurors, if the sheriff considers there is not enough time to allow for the list to be revised before the summonses are issued.