Can you get out of doing jury service?

I did it and it was a good experience. Made me realise how soft the general public are though even against scum. I understood you could appeal and not only defer but get out completely if you have animals to care for. Luckily I only had to go for four days
 
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Rookie

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Arable Farmer
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Lincs / Notts
Been called up twice now. Each time i wrote a letter saying that it was a busy time and that it would leave my father to do the work single handed and they accept it and got let off.
Problem is that you dont know how long you may be required for, and also being self employed i dont think you get anything in the way of covering somebody while you are not there ?
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
Mrs Pom gets called up now and again, she's never been picked though and the last time she didn't go at all as the case was cancelled.
Here they just send the letter by regular mail. I know someone that just ignored it. Proof of postage isn't proof of receipt or something like that. It was years ago and as far as I know, he's never been called again.
 
Been called up twice now. Each time i wrote a letter saying that it was a busy time and that it would leave my father to do the work single handed and they accept it and got let off.
Problem is that you dont know how long you may be required for, and also being self employed i dont think you get anything in the way of covering somebody while you are not there ?
Very true about the time requirement; just imagine getting a 6 week fraud case :cry:
 

Bruce Almighty

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Warwickshire
My wife was called up about 3 years ago and didn't want to do it.
She wrote to them saying she'd got calves & horses to look after & we've heard nothing since.
Personally I'd love to do it. Over 20 years ago I took part in an identity parade (got £8 for it) after a local appeal for men of my age & height at the time. Along with the other volunteers we knew who the suspect was as we were lined up & he was added to our line. He was picked out & although not 100% certain, I was sure the suspect was someone I'd known at middle school !
 

RushesToo

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Fingringhoe
If you avoid doing jury duty you really have to look at to your self before you call out all the judgements. If the only people that sit on juries are those that are too feckless to escape you have to look at what you have made. If accused criminals aren't getting the judgement that you feel they deserve it is probably because you weren't there.

Justice only works if 12 good men and true are sitting on the jury - if all the good men and true find reasons not to be there it should be no surprise that we end up with a slightly less than brilliant outcome.
 
If you avoid doing jury duty you really have to look at to your self before you call out all the judgements. If the only people that sit on juries are those that are too feckless to escape you have to look at what you have made. If accused criminals aren't getting the judgement that you feel they deserve it is probably because you weren't there.

Justice only works if 12 good men and true are sitting on the jury - if all the good men and true find reasons not to be there it should be no surprise that we end up with a slightly less than brilliant outcome.

All sounds great but the sentencing is a joke anyway.
 

RushesToo

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Fingringhoe
All sounds great but the sentencing is a joke anyway.
Fine - don't sit on a jury, just please don't complain.

Does it occur to you that sorting things out on a scale that involves a population is rather more complex than just having an opinion.


1 Corinthians 13:11 - and BTW I have no faith but still find this useful.
 

chaffcutter

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Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
I did a stint years ago. We were in and out of the jury room like a fiddlers elbow while they constantly brought up points of law which we were not allowed to hear,
. One young idiot on the jury said at the start that he hated the police and would never find anyone guilty ever.
In the end after three days of this, the defendant was dismissed, he was as guilty as hell but the courts had tried his accomplices first and it had been in the local press so in law he could not have a fair trial.
What a waste of everyone’s time - and the cost!
 
Fine - don't sit on a jury, just please don't complain.

Does it occur to you that sorting things out on a scale that involves a population is rather more complex than just having an opinion.


1 Corinthians 13:11 - and BTW I have no faith but still find this useful.

I do complain, and rightly so. I have no problem with people sitting on juries, I have an issue with policing and the justice system at large. The fact obvious criminals evade justice is not the blame of the people sitting on juries.
 
I did it in 2012.
Potato picking time too, lost a fair bit in wages, only got £64 a day allowance, easy make more than double that in a day on the spuds ...
I may have fiddled my expenses so got a bit back.

I found it very educational, and it would be quite handy if you ever found yourself in the dock knowing the right things to say.

It was also massively boring, ended up on 2 cases...
 

JP1

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Livestock Farmer
If you avoid doing jury duty you really have to look at to your self before you call out all the judgements. If the only people that sit on juries are those that are too feckless to escape you have to look at what you have made. If accused criminals aren't getting the judgement that you feel they deserve it is probably because you weren't there.

Justice only works if 12 good men and true are sitting on the jury - if all the good men and true find reasons not to be there it should be no surprise that we end up with a slightly less than brilliant outcome.
^^^^ This
 

RushesToo

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Fingringhoe
Fine - don't sit on a jury, just please don't complain.
Does it occur to you that sorting things out on a scale that involves a population is rather more complex than just having an opinion.
1 Corinthians 13:11 - and BTW I have no faith but still find this useful.
@ollie989898 To expand the arcane quote1 Corinthians 13:11

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
 

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