• Select a broadly representative group of approximately 8-12 people (see Case Study of Citizen Jury with 20 jurors).
• Determine a question important to the issue being considered or develop a series of options for the jury to consider.
• Brief jurors on the rules of the proceedings, and allow them between two and four days to come to a recommendation.
• Provide expert witnesses to brief the jury who can be cross-examined and who can spend time discussing the issue with the jury.
• Engage independent moderator(s) to assist the process of deliberation.
• At the agreed time, arrange a presentation from the panel and/or collect the jury's report, which should outline their recommendations.
• Publish the report and recommendations (this would normally be done by the commissioning body).
• If the recommendations of the citizen jury are not followed up, publish the reasons for not following up (this would normally be done by the commissioning body).