Jury Service

[Steve P]

I've had a jury summons through. I don't know anyone else who's done it before so have a few questions.

When you were called up were you still paid as normal by your employer?

How long did the case last?

Am I supposed to wear a suit?

Edited October 1, 2010 by Steve P

[//ross]

do a guilty/not guilty poll

[jump]

I was summoned once and I pretended to be racist and they let me go during the selection process.

[Alcatraz]

When my mum did it, I think she managed to get out of a long term case, instead having to sit on a week long one. No idea what the selection process is for those cases is though

[Steve P]

Good idea Ross//

Anyone know where I can get the glasses that Homer wears when he's on jury duty?

[Gre]

Good idea Ross//

Anyone know where I can get the glasses that Homer wears when he's on jury duty?

[jimbob_no1]

I got called up a few years ago now - 2004 or 2005. Just before Xmas. I believe employer's have a statutory duty to pay you (at least I think they do if you salaried). I'm not sure if that only covers the first 2 weeks which is the normal length of time you are called up for - it's only the longer running complicated cases that run over that and provincial courts rarely get those. It was a pretty interesting process, I was holding out for not guilty as I just thought the accused was naive and it wasn't done intentionally but eventually got persuaded that naivety wasn't an excuse so voted guilty in the end with everyone else. Some interesting views from other people on the jury as you would expect!

[Steve P]

I got called up a few years ago now - 2004 or 2005. Just before Xmas. I believe employer's have a statutory duty to pay you (at least I think they do if you salaried). I'm not sure if that only covers the first 2 weeks which is the normal length of time you are called up for - it's only the longer running complicated cases that run over that and provincial courts rarely get those. It was a pretty interesting process, I was holding out for not guilty as I just thought the accused was naive and it wasn't done intentionally but eventually got persuaded that naivety wasn't an excuse so voted guilty in the end with everyone else. Some interesting views from other people on the jury as you would expect!

[jump]

My worry is that reading through the stuff that came with the summons, it says that legally you have to be given unpaid leave by your employer. Knowing what a bunch of tight gits they are I have a nasty feeling they'll stick to that. It means i'd get the princely sum of £64.95 a day, and so will effectively cost me a fortune of the trial ended up being a long one. Time to go home and read through all my various insurances to see if I'm covered for it. Sod know's what they expect self employed people to do - stupid set-up.

[Steve P]

Just go in and pretend you ignorant, racist and argumentative and they will not select you

[Pogues Mcgogues]

Go in and act like you've made your mind up before. Bring a copy of the Daily Mail.

I can get called up in the next two years at any time n I'm gonna act like a right prick at it to not get selected.

[Ed209]

Put your underpants on your head and stick two pencils up your nose. They'll think you're crazy and send you home

[t8yman]

Love the way everyone expects law and order in this country, and then when its your turn to stand up and be counted - people sit down and shut up.

Your employer is under no obligation to pay you AFAIK, when I did it, there was a guy who earned up to £1000 a day, who took great pleasure in moaning like f**k every single day about how much money he was losing. Everyone was secretly "high fiving" each other when he got picked. I sat on 2 juries, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was the foreman second week, and had to announce a guilty verdict. I was shitting myself.

Do the service, you might learn something - usually how f**king amazngly stupid some people are. I had to stop one guy bullying a woman into a guilty verdict, just because "they are obviously guilty" and insinuating that she must be stupid if she disagreed, he actually apologised in front of everyone, and shut the f**k up.

Edited October 1, 2010 by t8yman

[oafc0000]

Sod know's what they expect self employed people to do - stupid set-up.

[oafc0000]

Oh yeah, some house insurance products contain Jury Duty coverage... Take a look at your policy...

[dakyras]

Love the way everyone expects law and order in this country, and then when its your turn to stand up and be counted - people sit down and shut up.

Your employer is under no obligation to pay you AFAIK, when I did it, there was a guy who earned up to £1000 a day, who took great pleasure in moaning like f**k every single day about how much money he was losing. Everyone was secretly "high fiving" each other when he got picked. I sat on 2 juries, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was the foreman second week, and had to announce a guilty verdict. I was shitting myself.

Do the service, you might learn something - usually how f**king amazngly stupid some people are. I had to stop one guy bullying a woman into a guilty verdict, just because "they are obviously guilty" and insinuating that she must be stupid if she disagreed, he actually apologised in front of everyone, and shut the f**k up.

[Steve P]

Love the way everyone expects law and order in this country, and then when its your turn to stand up and be counted - people sit down and shut up.

Your employer is under no obligation to pay you AFAIK, when I did it, there was a guy who earned up to £1000 a day, who took great pleasure in moaning like f**k every single day about how much money he was losing. Everyone was secretly "high fiving" each other when he got picked. I sat on 2 juries, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was the foreman second week, and had to announce a guilty verdict. I was shitting myself.

Do the service, you might learn something - usually how f**king amazngly stupid some people are. I had to stop one guy bullying a woman into a guilty verdict, just because "they are obviously guilty" and insinuating that she must be stupid if she disagreed, he actually apologised in front of everyone, and shut the f**k up.

[dakyras]

not arguing that I should do it. Financially we'd be ok for a while. But in all seriousness, if it was a long trial that kept me off work for an entended ammount of time i'd struggle to make mortgage payments. People in a worse position than me could find themselves in real trouble. Don't think that's fair.

[rexclark]

I'd quite happily do Jury Service. I've never recieved the call though.

[Steve P]

You can claim loss of earnings from the Court.

Up to 10 days is about £65 a day I think, then it goes up to double that for 200 days, then double again for 201+ days. Or something like that.

[//ross]

There was quite a famous case of a few years ago of a women on jury duty detailing her case on facebook and asking people to vote guilty/not guilty for her as she couldn't decide for herself. Narrowly missed out on a prison sentence I seem to remember!

You can claim loss of earnings from the Court.

Up to 10 days is about £65 a day I think, then it goes up to double that for 200 days, then double again for 201+ days. Or something like that.

[rachbon]

you should be given a form to give to the payroll department in your work, who will fill in all your wage information, detailing the earnings you will lose by being off work for jury duty. so i think maybe you can hand that form into the court to claim your earnings back if you're not being paid by your employer.

i would like to do jury duty, as long as i'm being paid because i can't afford not to be.

[gratedenini]

If i was in a position to be able to buy 1000 gallons of H2S04 and could round up the c**ts who were my jury.... i`d bathe the twats in it.

f**k you lot and jurys.....

den

[t8yman]

not arguing that I should do it. Financially we'd be ok for a while. But in all seriousness, if it was a long trial that kept me off work for an entended ammount of time i'd struggle to make mortgage payments. People in a worse position than me could find themselves in real trouble. Don't think that's fair.

[Kizzie]

Do the service, you might learn something - usually how f**king amazngly stupid some people are. I had to stop one guy bullying a woman into a guilty verdict, just because "they are obviously guilty" and insinuating that she must be stupid if she disagreed, he actually apologised in front of everyone, and shut the f**k up.