Anyone can apply to be excused, but the chances are slim. The only time I was ever called they had more jurors than they needed and I must admit to taking the chance to be released when they offered it. As to expenses: http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/docs/allowances_0405.zip -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Moto Guzzi Mille GT/Squire RS3 Gilera Nordwest | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
I'm pretty sure that if I *really* needed to, I could get myself discharged from a jury within 10 minutes. Simply telling the judge that you think you recognise the defendant would probably be enough. Having said that, I'm curious as to how the whole thing works and I'd like to do my bit too.
Perhaps. Of course, the judge will effectively cross examine you about it, and if he suspects you're lying, you'd be seriously in the shit. Anyway, you'd just go back to another waiting room, and wait to be called to another trial. I'd suspect that being involved in a trial is far preferable to sitting around for two weeks waiting to be called. Kiran
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Bear belched forth and ejected the following: Now that was a fucking classic! Made oi larf muchly that did. Brilliant.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Rope belched forth and ejected the following: You have to do more than 6 months' to get that, anything else is a poultry 250 a week, I think.
Not generally; you get some miserable day rate. About 30 quid a day if you're lucky. Or maybe that's for witness expenses. I was called for jury duty a couple of years ago and was offered sweet FA for my trouble. Civic responsibility and all that cobblers. Fwiw, I think we all should do it when called on, else the system breaks down even more than it is already. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
Not really. Coo - that's a bit strong. Having had to do it and been mucked around for days on end waiting to be selected I cannot say it is an enjoyable task. While I recognise it is a duty not one single person wanted to be there. The powers of concentration and analysis relative to the obligation placed on jurors were distinctly mismatched. I am not remotely convinced that most of my fellow jurors properly understood the issues, the timeline or the evidence presented. Most had made their minds up long before all of the evidence was presented and could not be shifted from their opinion by rational discussion. I think this behaviour (which I assume is typical) actually poses a risk to the correct assessment of guilt or innocence. Given the judgment that has to be made (beyond reasonable doubt) I am not convinced that that was fulfilled correctly in the case in question. After the decision was made and the previous history of the defendants was revealed then you could conclude that justice was done. However I am not convinced that the requirements of the court and the judge were fulfilled by the peers of the defendants but I'm probably being far too logical about it all. The only judgments that I think were correctly made were that a) the Judge was a very impressive individual. b) the victim in no way deserved the treatment he got from the defence barristers. c) the defence barristers were odious, grand standing twats. Unfortunately none of those people were being tried in the case.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Cab belched forth and ejected the following: He's been like it for a few days. Maybe his piles are giving him gyp.
Whinging Courier wrote Nobody loves him apparently. They all want to shag him but nobody wants a cuddle and he is unhappy about it.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Whinging Courier More like Gyp's given him piles. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Wicked Uncle Nigel belched forth and ejected the following: I could've done without that image ;-) I really didn't know Gyp was like that.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the following: Quite right, too. I've given up on women 'cos they only want me for my body.
Bear said... I dunno if that's serious enough. I collected 2 counts of that and one of urinating in a public place whilst blind drunk[1] before I was 21. [1] So drunk I didn't notice I was pissing up the driver's door of a panda car with a copper in the passenger seat.
