empanelment
Seating a jury
Empanelment is the act of forming a panel, especially selecting and seating a jury for trial.
The term applies to the formal process of assembling any official group: Empanelment of the grand jury took three days.
In healthcare and insurance contexts, empanelment refers to enrolling patients with a primary care provider or adding a physician to an insurance network.
Summoned potential jurors
- voir direPretrial juror examination
- jurorsTrial decision makers
- selectionChosen item or items
- summonsFormal court notification
pool · screening · qualification · prospective · challenge · exemption · array · sequestration
Required moral task
- serviceAid or maintenance
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- democracyRule by the people
- participationAct of taking part
responsibility · obligation · summons · registration · representation · public service · community · electorate
venire
Summoned potential jurors
summons · pool · screening · qualification · prospective · challenge · exemption · array · sequestration · alternates
duty
Required moral task
- serviceAid or maintenance
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- democracyRule by the people
participation · responsibility · obligation · summons · registration · representation · public service · community · electorate · citizens
trial
Judicial examination of claims
docket · bailiff · clerk · plaintiff · defendant · prosecution · defense · counsel · attorney · litigants
- jury termsverdict, deliberation, foreman, hung jury, deadlock
- jury trialjury deliberation, jury selection, juror selection, voir dire, jury pool
- grand juryindictment, presentment, true bill, foreperson, juror
empanelmentdismissal
Removal from position
discharge · disbandment · adjournment · verdict · deliberation
empanelmentdisbandment
Formal termination of group
disqualification · exclusion · removal · dissolution · discharge
panel, paneling, panelist, panelled, empanel, impaneled, impanels, empaneling, empaneled