Reply to: Impact of jury service?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If you do/say/wear something deliberately designed to get you out of doing jury service, the judge can and will find you in contempt of court.

It is akin to lying to the courts. Under oath it would be perjury, but it is most definitely treating the court with contempt.

You would need independant [sic] evidence to back up your claim ...

In my case it would be true. I do view judges and lawyers with contempt.

[Cliphead]

A lawyer friend of mine told me that most people who turn up in a suit get rejected, don't know how true this is.

[OwlHoot]

If you are working in any capacity on any role which involves the legal system, you are excused jury service by default.

Is your role working in such a position?

That's not true any more.

Barristers and Judges were excluded from jury service, but NuLab changed the rules.

[Dante]

Yes it's true. There is also a feature whereby developers can (for a fee) clean up your shady background.

[EternalOptimist]

BB - have you got a link to any policy that backs that up?

I do a bit of work on a system that is used by the CPS and would love to use that old chestnut.

Is it true that there is a crime on the live system, that was put on in test by a developer and never removed, 'bog-woggling' I think it was.

thats what a dev told me a few years ago anyways.

[TheFaQQer]

If you are working in any capacity on any role which involves the legal system, you are excused jury service by default.

Is your role working in such a position?

I think that they have changed the rules - lawyers and judges can be called these days, so I suspect that this is no longer the case.

The law changed in April 2004 - linky.

[Dante]

BB - have you got a link to any policy that backs that up?

I do a bit of work on a system that is used by the CPS and would love to use that old chestnut.

[BolshieBastard]

If you are working in any capacity on any role which involves the legal system, you are excused jury service by default.

Is your role working in such a position?

[Dante]

Add yourself to the bottom of the leaked BNP list and take a laminated copy with you.

[TCL]

Write them a letter, tell them your wife/girlfriend is heavily pregnant. Thats what I did when I got called up a few weeks back

Wrote a long rambling letter about how she was heavily pregnant (which she is) and how the baby was due at the exact time my jury duty was scheduled to start (which isn't quite true) and that I felt I wouldn't be able to give this important civic duty the attention it rightly deserved as I would be worried about missing the birth of my first child (its my third)

Cherry on the cake was the bit about if they wanted further proof, I would be happy to provide a doctor's letter or pictures of the last scan. Virtually dared them question it. They didn't, just got a one line letter back saying I was excused temporarily and I may be recalled again in the future. The words "cross" "bridge" and "get to it" spring to mind.

Not sure how this will work for the ladies in this situation though.

[DodgyAgent]

immediately welcomed with open arms by the scrote's defence team.

Best to turn up very smart and appear as authoritarian as possible.

Wear a white pointy hat with a white mask.

[Bob Dalek]

Reminds me of a joke:

Fred Cartwright, the World's greatest conman and on trial for a multi-million pound fraud, was released from the Old Bailey today after sending the Judge down for 3 years.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Just turn up for jury selection unshaved, hungover, smelling and wear torn jeans and a tee shirt with "flip the Muthas" written on it. You'll be back home by lunchtime.

immediately welcomed with open arms by the scrote's defence team.

Best to turn up very smart and appear as authoritarian as possible.

[TheFaQQer]

Just been called up for Jury duty selection in Edinbra but I'm working in Londonog... now what?

Turn up for Jury Duty? Claim on your insurance? Apply for a deferral? Pretend you never got the letter?

I tried to get out of it when I was called - working in Bristol, living in East Lancashire, project go-live at that time, only person who knew how it worked....

And I still didn't get out of it.

Does the unshaven look really work? Would have to happen at the busiest time of the year and not during the four months on the bench - typical.

Not a chance - it's random, innit?? Once you get there, the jury pool is picked at random, then the 12 good men and true are picked from a shuffled list of names. So at what point would your appearance come into it?

[deano]

If you do/say/wear something deliberately designed to get you out of doing jury service, the judge can and will find you in contempt of court.

It is akin to lying to the courts. Under oath it would be perjury, but it is most definitely treating the court with contempt.

You would need independant evidence to back up your claim that your statements\dress\actions are an unavoidable part of your life and that there is nothing you can do.