Power of jury or assessors to put questions
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Summary
Jury members or assessors may ask questions to witnesses in trials that use a jury or assessors. They must put those questions through the Judge or ask the Judge's leave. Only questions the Judge himself might ask and considers proper are allowed.
Example
Ravi is on a jury and a witness gives a confusing account. The jurors want to clarify and ask the Judge for permission to put a question. The Judge allows a question that he could himself ask, so the witness answers under the Judge's direction.
Bare Act
Enacted textIn cases tried by jury or with assessors, the jury or assessors may put any question to the witnesses, through or by leave of the Judge, which the Judge himself might put and which he considers proper.
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