ABSTRACT
Statute requires that a list of qualified jurors should be made and revised annually or biennially, as the case may be. The first list is prepared either by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as for instance in Antigua and Dominica, or by the Chief Elections Officer, chiefly from the list of electors, as in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In the Bahamas a revising panel comprising the Registrar and two others both prepare and revise the list. In other jurisdictions, the initial list is subsequently revised usually by the magistrate of the District, or in Trinidad and Tobago by a magistrate who is appointed as the reviser. The reviser eliminates those jurors who are disqualified or exempt from the list. It has been held that the verdict of a jury will not be set aside on account of irregularities in the due revision of the jury list unless the applicant proves that he has been prejudiced thereby: Montreal Street Railway Co v Normadin [1917] AC 170, PC.
