has anyone ever been called to do this? just been reading someones blog on LC and i was thinking i have never known anyone *family, friends etc* being called to do this
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I've done it....strangely enough I got my 'call up' papers two days after a load of us were talking about none of us having ever been called.
I could have got out of it but wanted to do it...lots of sitting around but interesting enough and I did get to be jury foreperson.
I could have got out of it but wanted to do it...lots of sitting around but interesting enough and I did get to be jury foreperson.
quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I've done it....strangely enough I got my 'call up' papers two days after a load of us were talking about none of us having ever been called.
I could have got out of it but wanted to do it...lots of sitting around but interesting enough and I did get to be jury foreperson.
did you enjoy it? i think it would be quite interesting
Husband has done it twice!
Its a right pain in the butt to be honest!
He loved it though!
Its a right pain in the butt to be honest!
He loved it though!
quote:Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Husband has done it twice!
Its a right pain in the butt to be honest!
He loved it though!
do you just get a letter summoning you to court?
I personally have never been called. My sister was called when her twins were born and she managed to wangle her way out of it.
quote:Originally posted by Aimee:quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I've done it....strangely enough I got my 'call up' papers two days after a load of us were talking about none of us having ever been called.
I could have got out of it but wanted to do it...lots of sitting around but interesting enough and I did get to be jury foreperson.
did you enjoy it? i think it would be quite interesting
I enjoyed it...I did jury service with the niece of Mad Axeman Frankie Fraser....the food was OK and I made money cos at the time I got free train fares and they also paid for a childminder.
It was like 12 Angry men on our first case...there were 8 for conviction and 4 against....we managed to turn them all round to not convict!
I got called up a couple of years ago, the 1st week overlaps with another groups 2nd week. Every evening I had to phone to see if i would be needed the next day.
I never got on a case and had to sit in a 'holding' room for 2 weeks solid. It was BORING!
Some days they released me on a half day, and as my Boss said I wasn't needed in work for the half days, the Courts pay my full wages and I got to go home.
I also got a subsidised money card to get coffee and food, if i didn't use it they still credited me when the 2 weeks was up.
I walked it into Town most days but they also credited me some money for Bus Fares!
No wonder Trials cost so much, there's loads called up who never get to be on an actual Jury and end up sat around all day ....bearing in mind the Courts are paying our wages for doing so.
Sounds godd sat around reading, but believe me, it is boring and you can't go out of the room until they say so.
I never got on a case and had to sit in a 'holding' room for 2 weeks solid. It was BORING!
Some days they released me on a half day, and as my Boss said I wasn't needed in work for the half days, the Courts pay my full wages and I got to go home.
I also got a subsidised money card to get coffee and food, if i didn't use it they still credited me when the 2 weeks was up.
I walked it into Town most days but they also credited me some money for Bus Fares!
No wonder Trials cost so much, there's loads called up who never get to be on an actual Jury and end up sat around all day ....bearing in mind the Courts are paying our wages for doing so.
Sounds godd sat around reading, but believe me, it is boring and you can't go out of the room until they say so.
quote:Originally posted by Aimee:quote:Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Husband has done it twice!
Its a right pain in the butt to be honest!
He loved it though!
do you just get a letter summoning you to court?
Yes... he did. Twice.
It is a bit strange... that he got selected twice.... yet I don't know anyone from my circle of friends that has ever been called up.
What they pay though isn't that much...that's why my husband had to get out of his...being self employed he couldn't afford to do it cos the money he'd have got would have been a fraction of his earnings.
quote:Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
I got called up a couple of years ago, the 1st week overlaps with another groups 2nd week. Every evening I had to phone to see if i would be needed the next day.
I never got on a case and had to sit in a 'holding' room for 2 weeks solid. It was BORING!
Some days they released me on a half day, and as my Boss said I wasn't needed in work for the half days, the Courts pay my full wages and I got to go home.
I also got a subsidised money card to get coffee and food, if i didn't use it they still credited me when the 2 weeks was up.
I walked it into Town most days but they also credited me some money for Bus Fares!
No wonder Trials cost so much, there's loads called up who never get to be on an actual Jury and end up sat around all day ....bearing in mind the Courts are paying our wages for doing so.
Sounds godd sat around reading, but believe me, it is boring and you can't go out of the room until they say so.
i was just going to ask, if they paid you for loss of earnings etc, it does sound boring, must be interesting though, if its a really juicy case
quote:Originally posted by Aimee:
..... if its a really juicy case
I would hate one of those. Some of the financial cases (Maxwell trial) goes on for months and months.
quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
What they pay though isn't that much...that's why my husband had to get out of his...being self employed he couldn't afford to do it cos the money he'd have got would have been a fraction of his earnings.
Yeh, they only pay up to say ÂĢ50 per day for wages (may be more now) tops...self employed people can get out of it because of this.
I did actually end up a little better off, I didn't have to produce bus tickets that I had saved, just filled in a form that asked roughly my travelling costs etc.
Chances are I could get called again as I didn't get on a case...I hope not....
I got two cases when i did it....1 the first week which went Tuesday to Thursday so the excused us Friday and then one on the Tuesday of the next week which went till Friday....so I didn't have too much sitting round after the first day
quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I got two cases when i did it....1 the first week which went Tuesday to Thursday so the excused us Friday and then one on the Tuesday of the next week which went till Friday....so I didn't have too much sitting round after the first day
what where the cases? or are you not allowed to say
quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I got two cases when i did it....1 the first week which went Tuesday to Thursday so the excused us Friday and then one on the Tuesday of the next week which went till Friday....so I didn't have too much sitting round after the first day
Lucky you...I was bored bloody stiff
quote:Originally posted by Aimee:quote:Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I got two cases when i did it....1 the first week which went Tuesday to Thursday so the excused us Friday and then one on the Tuesday of the next week which went till Friday....so I didn't have too much sitting round after the first day
what where the cases? or are you not allowed to say
It was nearly 20 years ago...I think I'm safe...one was GBH and one was robbery (mugging)...we found them all not guilty.
Mr G has been called three times, but managed to get out of it the third time. The most exciting case he got was a young woman who stole a purse containing 50p.
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:
Mr G has been called three times, but managed to get out of it the third time. The most exciting case he got was a young woman who stole a purse containing 50p.
That's exactly what I mean about how much money is wasted on some things!
I got called up not long after my 18th birthday and tbh was absolutely bricking it 
Was really interesting though and really enjoyed it.
Just got a letter from the Court saying that I had been called up - you fill it in and there is a place for your employers to fill in if they are going to stop your wages while you do it - sounds a bit tight I would recommend doing this - you get paid the same by the Court and dont get taxed on it - plus I got travel expenses too - ended up better off - as well as better hours
As we got near the end of the 2nd week - we were asking the guy who decides which jurors go into which case if he could put us on a long trial
That was a long time ago now though - not sure whether things have changed - but would love to get called up again
First case lasted a week, second week was just on and off little 1 day, 2 day cases
Was really interesting though and really enjoyed it.
Just got a letter from the Court saying that I had been called up - you fill it in and there is a place for your employers to fill in if they are going to stop your wages while you do it - sounds a bit tight I would recommend doing this - you get paid the same by the Court and dont get taxed on it - plus I got travel expenses too - ended up better off - as well as better hours
As we got near the end of the 2nd week - we were asking the guy who decides which jurors go into which case if he could put us on a long trial
That was a long time ago now though - not sure whether things have changed - but would love to get called up again
First case lasted a week, second week was just on and off little 1 day, 2 day cases
I was called up once, years ago, but couldn't do it due to medical reasons.
I'm kind of glad that I couldn't. I'm not good at judging people, and don't know if I could have done so fairly and properly.
Coward!
I'm kind of glad that I couldn't. I'm not good at judging people, and don't know if I could have done so fairly and properly.
Coward!
I've done it - its a bit dull although I suppose it depends on what cases you have.
Theres a lot of hanging around and being sent in and out the courtroom whilst they are discussing points of law!
Theres a lot of hanging around and being sent in and out the courtroom whilst they are discussing points of law!
I was called up in November 1989, it was wonderful, I was stuck at home with my son in a new area and didn't know anyone, and I got to be spokesperson. The rest of the jurors were not interested at all, but I and another woman managed to sway em round. Found the man 'not guilty' of robbery due to not enough evidence.
My friend did! Quita a big case too
Twice.
Got to sit in on beginning of two cases. Murder and a drug bust.
Was also attempted to be corrupted by an officer of the law who seemed ignorant of the notion of perverting the course of justice. In the courtroom. Whilst the judges back was turned.
Both cases after initial pre-amble, was not chosen to sit. Interesting tnough.
Got to sit in on beginning of two cases. Murder and a drug bust.
Was also attempted to be corrupted by an officer of the law who seemed ignorant of the notion of perverting the course of justice. In the courtroom. Whilst the judges back was turned.
Both cases after initial pre-amble, was not chosen to sit. Interesting tnough.