This article argues that the juror franchise became more restrictive in the years immediately
after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 had broadened the jury franchise so as to
include some women. It argues that the subsequent restrictions on the jury franchise have
not standardly been discussed in the literature on the twentieth century jury because of the
lengths taken at the time to present these reforms as merely technical in nature. Only six
months after the 1919 Act was passed, a dispute broke out at the Western assize circuit …