Editing Jury (section)

===20th century===
After 1919 in England, women were no longer excluded from jury service by virtue of their sex, although they still had to satisfy the ordinary property qualifications. The exemption which had been created by the 1825 Act for towns which "possessed" their own courts meant ten towns were free to ignore the property qualifications. This amplified in these towns the general understanding that local officials had a free hand in summoning freely from among those people who were qualified to be jurors. In 1920, three of these ten towns – Leicester, Lincoln, and Nottingham – consistently empanelled assize juries of six men and six women; while at the Bristol, Exeter, and Norwich assizes no women were empanelled at all.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Crosby |first1=K |title=Restricting the Juror Franchise in 1920s England and Wales |journal=Law and History Review |date=2019 |volume=37 |issue=1 |page=195 |doi=10.1017/S0738248018000639|s2cid=150306872 |url=https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=247766/84A91BAF-7996-4285-921C-85219429B434.pdf&pub_id=247766 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable - 3 citations and only an impact score of .7 ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2024}} This quickly led to a tightening up of the rules, and an abolition of these ten towns' discretion. After 1922, trial juries throughout England had to satisfy the same qualifications; although it was not until the 1980s that a centralised system was designed for selecting jurors from among the people who were qualified to serve.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Cheryl |last2=Lloyd-Bostock |first2=Sally |title=The Continuing Decline of the English Jury |journal=N Vidmar (Ed), World Jury Systems (OUP 2000)}}</ref> This meant there was still a great amount of discretion in the hands of local officials.