Originally posted by n5gooner
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Sorry n5gooner, you misunderstand, probably I was not clear. You get fined if you do jury service when not eligible to do so (you are on parole, a high court judge, clinically insane, etc). If you refuse to do your jury service or don't turn up, then it's showertime with Bubba. -
Careful, sappatz, by standing up for the old codger you are "glorifying terrorism", and we all know what that leads to in New Labour's One Party Police State.Originally posted by sappatzComment
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Back luck, Lucifer. I hope you get a simple case of Janet caught nicking tins from Tesco.
As I stated in a previous post, the incident with the old man perfectly illustrates that the government and police cannot be trusted with increased power. WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE. It doesn't matter if you have never so much as returned a library book late. All it requires is a case of mistaken identity or some wacko to take a dislike to you and lodge a complaint and that's it
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Me too, Voron, me too. Contesting fines on overdue library books is about as high profile a crime as I want to be sitting on.
On the other matter, yes absolutely. All it would take is someone to tell PC Plod they heard Chico banging on about how suicide bombers are doing a wonderful job, and that's it...
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Is there a list of organisations which you can join which would make you unsuitable. For example if you were a fully fledged member of the BMP - you don't have to support them, but would have thought it would make you unsuitable for certain cases.Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
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A friend of my mother's got out of it at the last minute at the bit where you've been introduced to the case and they ask if there's any reason why you shouldn't sit (usually this is because you know somebody involved in the case). It transpires that the gentleman in the dock was a black guy and she crossed her fingers behind her back and said that she was an extreme racist and that as a consequence she could not give him a fair hearing. She was immediately discharged and sent home, card marked as civic duty performed.Originally posted by TonyEnglishComment
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Ok so that works. So go and sit and state that you cannot possibly give the person a fair trial based on some made up reason.Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
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If it's something like "I know the accused", normally you'd just be assigned to another case. I'm guessing in this instance she was sent home because everyone up before the beak that week was from an ethnic minority.Originally posted by TonyEnglishComment
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Not sure if it is the same here, but the way it works in Australia is that 30 potential jurors are paraded before the lawyers before the case. The defense is allowed to object to 12 jurors and the prosecution can object to 6. In this way you get 12 jurors who more or less satisfy the demographic that the defense wants.
With this in mind, consider dressing particularly chav-like or scruffy and hope you get thrown out by the prosecution.Comment
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FFS it's not difficult to get out of jury duty
Just tell them you have a job, pay taxes and go to church regularly.
Feet won't touch the ground on the way out.Why not?Comment
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