Jury Service

[joe-90]

Just say that you an ex copper and you know from experience that coppers only arrest those they think are guilty - so you are completely biased. If he wasn't guilty he wouldn't be there.

 

[tim west]

How long you been an ex copper Thermo? You can avoid jury service up to 5 years after leaving the service. I was Civil Staff and managed to avoid it twice and have never been asked since.

 

[joboatbuilder]

I got called up a few years back, looked at the pittance they'll pay as maximum towards loss of earnings and realised it would cost me a lot of money. So I wrote back explaing what I charged a day for labour, a brief outline of overheads and an estimated cost of loss of earnings. I also stated that I could easily loose customers who weren't prepared to wait and so potentially loose even more future earnings.
They excused me with no further query.
I suppose if there's the whole country to choose from, excusing anyone who has a good reason not to do it isn't that tricky.

 

[Thermo]

Tim, i left in 2004, although good old blunkett changed the rules that year so that youre not exempt anymore. To my mind thats bloody ludicrous. I still have contact with many old colleagues, and the chances of coming across them or knowing them at court in the town where i worked must be high. Now i have a fairly open mind, but even so im surely going to be subconciously be putting more weight on their evidence, so how can that be fair to the defendent.

Anyway, i sent an e-mail off last night to the jury service bureau, pointing that out and also the fact not only will i be losing money but ill effectively be paying my trainees to stay at home. Got a reply back this morning excuseing me from jury service. I have to say thats quite organised. Big worry off my mind as March is when we really start getting busy

 

[joe-90]

Ya just an ol' drama queen. You knew you'd get off all along.

 

[Thermo]

i know how the courts system works joe, i had visions of sitting around at court for bloody days on end!

 

[mail2neil]

Just been called up for jury service. I have to ask myself what is the sense in calling me up as an ex-copper to serve on a jury in my hometown, where i still know a lot of the coppers, and the villans? A i really going to be able to take an impartial and uncynical view on the proceedings?

Well I think a lot of people would be surprised by that Thermo..

A Copper that's not impartial?
Surely not.

 

[aspley]

Just say that you an ex copper and you know from experience that coppers only arrest those they think are guilty - so you are completely biased. If he wasn't guilty he wouldn't be there.

Tell em your inspiration for all things is Joe-90.......................that should do the trick