Jury Service
 

Been called up for jury service two years in a row in Scotland. I am 60 and have never been called up before. I am wondering if it's because of a backlog of cases due to covid and there is more chance of being selected. I was excused from doing it due to being a full time carer.

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Difficulty in finding someone without a criminal record?

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If you are still a full time Carer, but the Allowance has been stopped due to you receiving the State Pension, you should tell them ASAP.

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Could be - I keep meeting people who have been called up recently. I’ve not done it for years myself, and when I was called up it was to crown court in Englandshire. Two interesting cases over two weeks.

I appreciate it is a hassle for some but I do think everyone who possibly can do it, should do it. There are few enough things connecting us to shared civic experience in this country and jury service is a sort of reminder that we’re all connected and owe something to each other.

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I'm still 7 years away from a state pension.

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Eh?

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I believe it's just a random selection from the electoral roll. I am not even sure if they preclude people with criminal records. You might have to declare it when called upon. It's one of those things were people see patterns when there likely isn't one.

I've been called twice. I hated it the first time and the second time they thankfully called me and said they no longer needed me days before I was due to do it.

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As in difficulty in finding somebody other than livelysprite.

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I wish it was the good old days of 60/65 ;)

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I anticipate being called again next year. No worries. I have the complete DVD collection of Rumpole of the Bailey. I will watch that to get me in the mood.

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The pension age reform is not fair. Life expectancy varies depending on where you live.

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So far, Ive never been called up for Jury Service.

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Just watch 'Crown Court' on Talking Pictures that will prepare you. They find everyone not guilty, fair enough I say.

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Well there you go, I have been called up again only a few weeks after being excused.

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As Taf should know.

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What does that mean?

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What happens if you do not "receive" the letter?

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Taf, third poster in the thread and and carer receiving state pension

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They send a reminder. I hear a lot of people just ignore the letters and reminders as they are not sent by registered mail.

I know people hate that... They think of ways to tryu snd get out of it.....


Good luck :)

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I can't believe they excused me a month ago due to my circumstances and have sent me another citation. I am a registered full-time day and night carer and they will only pay £1 per hour for a non-registered carer to replace me for a week. A registered carer will get £6 per hour. I can still turn up and ask the judge for excusal.

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Did you get excused or just deferred? If it was a deferral it’s not unusual to get a new date so soon afterwards. In such circumstances your name has still been considered to have been chosen and they’ve just allocated a different set of dates for you. If you are fully excused, then they cancel your name from the list and you don’t get called again unless the computer randomly selects you again. That could be years away, or never. However in your case they seem to have treated you the same as if you told them it clashed with a pre-booked holiday.

You might be better off trying to ask a judge directly, I don’t imagine you’re likely to get sufficient consideration from the cynical and jaded back office staff.

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I got an email a month ago saying "I am pleased to let you know that you have been excused from jury service. Please destroy your citation, as this will no longer be required".

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I got a two week block and sat around all day on day 1.
On day 2 we got told to get ready for the case was closed before leaving the waiting room.
On day 3 after waiting we got sent home
On the some of following days we were told to be ready but got text messages to say don't bother coming in - if if in never got called.
Never got further then the waiting room.

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I just got an email saying I have been excused. But as you say they might just put my name back into the puddin mixer and I will probably be called up again in a month's time.

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Sounds like you went to a crown court. My local court is a sherrif court so trials are normally only 5 working days max.

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Ah … in Scotland then. I have to say I found the Sherriff court an absolute nightmare to deal with for deferrals/excusals (wife was called a few years ago) compared to my own experience of Crown Court years ago when we lived down south.

The Sherriff court actually tried to operate between Christmas and New Year, dragged dozens of people into town on a daily basis only to tell them they could go home because one or more people involved in the trial hadn’t shown up, what with it being the middle of the apparently unforseeable CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. Absolute numpties, the lot of them.

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I've never been called up and seeing as from today I'm an OAP looks like I got away with it. :D

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How long are the sessions before any breaks, I only ask as the reason most films in the cinema are 90 to 120 minutes in the human bladder?

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Me, neither, but I’ve got some bad news for both of us…

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/j...land-and-wales

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Bugger! I'll just have to pretend to be senile.

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https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles...eing%20elderly.

I was called in 2021 at age 72. I claimed exemption due to me being classed as medically vunerable. They didn't request any verification so I assume they treated me as over 70 entitled to be excused.

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Never more than 90 minutes in my experience

Wow very lucky!!