Slightly different jury service question

[blakeyuk]

If your money management is so rubbish, or you think you should be paid regardless, I still don't see why other people should be paying your losses. For one thing, they aren't losses, since you get paid to deliver work for your client and while you're doing jury service you aren't working.

Oh, and also, it is a loss in my book. If it weren't for jury service, I'd be there, generating revenue. Now I'm legally required to be elsewhere. Ergo, a loss. It's not like I'm benched and using the insurance to cover income that actually, I wouldn't be getting anyway.

Blakey.

[kal]

Oh, and also, it is a loss in my book. If it weren't for jury service, I'd be there, generating revenue. Now I'm legally required to be elsewhere. Ergo, a loss. It's not like I'm benched and using the insurance to cover income that actually, I wouldn't be getting anyway.

Blakey.

Surely as you are not in a cushy permie job that will pay you while you're doing your civil duty they will let you off?

[Qdos Contractor]

Theoretically if you claimed the £300 on the PCG policy then you could indeed also claim on ours, up to your evidenced daily rate.

So, if your daily rate is £500, you could claim £300 on the PCG policy and the remaining £200 on the Qdos product.

The relevant section of our wording reads:

"(The policy will not cover…) Legal expenses which can be recovered by the insured under any other insurance or which would have been covered if this policy did not exist except for any amount in excess of that which would have been payable under such other insurance."

Naturally I can't speak for the PCG; you'd have to double check their own conditions too.

[Scruff]

When you appear for the Jury selection, make it quite clear how you feel about reintroducing Capital Punishment, vigilantism, immigrants and soap-dodging benefit scroungers.

Whilst not ethical, it is not immoral, or illegal to do so...

[kal]

When you appear for the Jury selection, make it quite clear how you feel about reintroducing Capital Punishment, vigilantism, immigrants and soap-dodging benefit scroungers.

Whilst not ethical, it is not immoral, or illegal to do so...

Contempt of court? The OP could find himself banged up, and no amount of PCG/QDOS cover would pay out for that

[Scruff]

Contempt of court? The OP could find himself banged up, and no amount of PCG/QDOS cover would pay out for that

Why would this be Contempt of Court? When you are asked certain questions, you answer them, honestly. You are only contemptuous if you disobey a Court order, or disregard the Court's authority.

[DirtyDog]

Why would this be Contempt of Court? When you are asked certain questions, you answer them, honestly. You are only contemptuous if you disobey a Court order, or disregard the Court's authority.

Do they ask you any questions like that? When I was on jury duty, all they asked was whether anyone knew any of the people involved in the trial and read out a list of names.

In America they do a lot more jury interrogation, asking about what you think, and can strike a juror for any reason they want (subject to a maximum number of strikes per side).

I also can't see anything that would prevent you from doing jury duty there, though.

[d000hg]

Sorry to go off-topic a little, but I was wondering with JD what if transport is an issue? e.g. you get called up but without a car, getting there would take a long time (say 90min+) or even be unreachable?
I don't have a car since I ditched it a couple of years back - would this matter one jot?

[DirtyDog]

Sorry to go off-topic a little, but I was wondering with JD what if transport is an issue? e.g. you get called up but without a car, getting there would take a long time (say 90min+) or even be unreachable?
I don't have a car since I ditched it a couple of years back - would this matter one jot?

Get a bus or taxi and claim the cost back.

You're unlikely to live 90+ minutes from the nearest court, though, and have no form of transport.

[malvolio]

[QUOTE=blakeyuk;1856197][QUOTE=malvolio;1856127]Why wouldn't "PCG cover the amount they pay"? The idea is they support their members as fully as they can. QDOS pay out in line with the terms of their insurance.

Let me be clearer: Even if they pay £300, I'm still at a loss, not "if they even pay out, cause you know what these dodgy insurance companies are like").




I can see your point. But I'm a new contractor, so although I have a warchest which I'm building up, it's not significant enough to cover a 4 month murder trial. 3 days is fine (I've done that before), but after a while it's going to hurt.

It's not about being paid regardless. It's about a professional approach to risk management. You've been around long enough to know that, so I'm assuming either you totally misunderstood me, or I caught you in a bad mood.

Blakey.

OK, you caught me on a bad day, but I'm rude to everyone o don't take it personally.


I did slightly misread the question. The correct answer to that is to appeal against appearing on the basis that you are vital to the operating of your business and its contracted requirements. That is a valid reason for not appearing on a jury and will be accepted by the court.


And since you're a PCG member, have a search through the main website; jury service for freelancers is explained in there somewhere