Lord Justice Scott Baker told the potential jurors, who have all been randomly selected from the electoral roll, that the deaths had “created worldwide interest on an unprecedented.
You have to put out of your mind anything you have heard out of court. It will not be easy to do that in this particular case but you have to.”
Jurors at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed must ignore a decade of intense news coverage, books and TV documentaries about the case.
They were also ordered to reveal any connections to the royal family, Mohamed al Fayed and the secret service.
The candidates have been asked to complete a questionnaire to determine whether they have any prejudices or connections which might make them unsuitable.
Reportally eleven jurors will be chosen from a pool of up to 200 people ahead of the start of the long-awaited case next week.
A shortlist of around 20 to 25 candidates will then be drawn up and the final jury will be sworn in on Tuesday when the inquest gets under way in full.
The jurors will be taken to Paris in the second week of the case to see the site of the fatal crash.
