Editing Jury trial (section)

====Challenging potential jurors====
The ''[[voir dire]]'' system of examining the jury pool before selection is not permitted in Australia as it violates the privacy of jurors. Therefore, though it exists, the right to [[Strike for cause|challenge for cause]] during [[jury selection]] cannot be employed much. [[Peremptory challenge]]s are usually based on the [[Intuition (knowledge)|hunch]]es of counsel and no reason is needed to use them. All Australian states allow for peremptory challenges in [[jury]] selection; however, the number of challenges granted to the counsels in each state are not all the same. Until 1987 [[New South Wales]] had twenty peremptory challenges for each side where the offence was murder, and eight for all other cases. In 1987 this was lowered to three peremptory challenges per side, the same amount allowed in [[South Australia]]. Eight peremptory challenges are allowed for both counsels for all offences in [[Queensland]]. [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Tasmania]] and the [[Northern Territory]] allow for six. [[Western Australia]] allows three peremptory challenges per side unless there is more than one accused in which case the prosecution can peremptorily challenge three times the number of accused and each accused has three peremptory challenges.<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|WA|act|cpa2004188|Criminal Procedure Act 2004|104}}</ref>