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Hillsborough inquests jury to be sworn in Hillsborough inquests jury sworn in
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The jury is expected to be sworn in later at the fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 football fans who were killed in the Hillsborough disaster. The jury has been sworn in at the fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 football fans who were killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
On Monday, the panel of five men and six women was selected and told the hearings could take a year. A panel of seven women and four men will hear evidence, which could take a year, about Britain's worst sporting disaster.
Coroner Lord Justice Goldring said it was "absolutely fundamental" the jurors disregarded anything they may have already heard about the 1989 disaster. The 96 names were read out by Christina Lambert, counsel to the inquests, before jurors were sworn in.
He will open the hearing with a statement to the court in Warrington. Coroner Lord Justice Goldring is due to open the hearing in Warrington.
The inquests were ordered in December 2012 when the High Court quashed the accidental death verdicts recorded at the original inquests in March 1991. The disaster happened on 15 April 1989 during Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest as thousands of fans were crushed on the ground's Leppings Lane terrace.
New evidence was revealed by the Hillsborough Independent Panel about Liverpool FC's FA Cup semi-final at which the men, women and children died. Verdicts of accidental death from the original Hillsborough inquest in March 1991 were quashed in December 2012, after the Hillsborough Independent Panel delivered its final report on the disaster earlier that year.
All of the Hillsborough disaster victims were Liverpool supporters watching their team play Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on 15 April 1989.
Over the course of the inquests, jurors are expected to hear evidence on themes including stadium safety, emergency planning, crowd management and the response of the emergency services.Over the course of the inquests, jurors are expected to hear evidence on themes including stadium safety, emergency planning, crowd management and the response of the emergency services.