Jury Summons

denla

You should be honoured to have this jury service experience. Just take out a loan! Don't bother claiming anything. Just pay the loan and interest back with your own salary. That's part of signing up for jury service. You telling me you didn't think of all this the moment you signed up?

divadee

bwals92 wrote: »

Thanks for that. In truth, yeah I was looking for a way to get out of it because of my finances. If I'm not called will I get paid by the court for that day? And how does it go for weekends, should I be returning to work?

On the form you give your employer to sign and say what your wages are etc... There is a box that asks if you are not used that day in court can you return to work. Then it's up to the employer what the choose.

I would say you can go to work weekends as court doesn't sit at the weekends.

As for lunch and travel money you are paid for all travel to and from court and you are given an allowance of about £5 a day for lunch to spend in the canteen at court.

If work don't pay you your wages you claim these back from the court. There is a way you can get these weekly if it would cause you great financial hardship to wait for the full 2 weeks. Speak to the jury manager at the court you are attending.

You need a very good reason to get out of jury duty and normally they will just defer your duty so you have to do it anyway just later on.

bwals92

denla wrote: »

You should be honoured to have this jury service experience. Just take out a loan! Don't bother claiming anything. Just pay the loan and interest back with your own salary. That's part of signing up for jury service. You telling me you didn't think of all this the moment you signed up?

I didn't sign up for jury service, I registered on the electoral register as an occupant in my home. And then I was randomly selected.

I haven't even reached my 20s yet.

bwals92

divadee wrote: »

On the form you give your employer to sign and say what your wages are etc... There is a box that asks if you are not used that day in court can you return to work. Then it's up to the employer what the choose.

I would say you can go to work weekends as court doesn't sit at the weekends.

As for lunch and travel money you are paid for all travel to and from court and you are given an allowance of about £5 a day for lunch to spend in the canteen at court.

If work don't pay you your wages you claim these back from the court. There is a way you can get these weekly if it would cause you great financial hardship to wait for the full 2 weeks. Speak to the jury manager at the court you are attending.

You need a very good reason to get out of jury duty and normally they will just defer your duty so you have to do it anyway just later on.

That's handy, also, as it's Christmas and I work in a retail environment I would have surely got overtime, do you think I could claim for this?

LannieDuck

bwals92 wrote: »

I received a jury summons at my old address over a month and a half ago. My old neighbor rudely opened it before giving it to me. I collected it and replied as attending almost straight away (I thought I had no choice seeing as though the letter date had already reached the reply deadline). In the reply, I stated my change of address.

Unless your neighbour held onto it for a week or more, you weren't really disadvantaged by this - royal mail can just as easily delay letters by a day or two. In reality you had the same length of time to reply as anyone else.

You responded to say that you could attend. Unless your circumstances have changed since then, I think you're stuck with it.

bwals92 wrote: »

I hadn't received any sort of letter of confirmation. I decided to ring the jury central summoning bureau today. They had said 'nobody had changed my address' and that a confirmation letter would be sent to my new address within 7 days. Dangerously close to my summoning date!

You don't really need anything in advance. It's nice to have some info sent to you, but you have your summoning date and you can always call up the jury people if you have questions (I found them very helpful).

bwals92 wrote: »

After feeling forced into jury service

Nonsense, you replied to say you could do it.

bwals92 wrote: »

I feel that they've handled my data carelessly. Upon closer inspection I also realised that I would have been on the electoral register twice during the selection.

This isn't the jury people's mistake. This will be the electoral role that you get letters through about once a year asking you to confirm who lives at the address. Maybe your neighbour has been ignoring them?

I'm also not sure that the jury people can change your address, even tho you told them. I suspect they have use ofthe electoral roll data rather than owning it.

bwals92 wrote: »

I queried this and the lady said 'I don't think you would have had any more chance of being selected because of this'. If I do the math, being on the electoral register twice (at two addresses) increases my chances of being selected by 2. Am I right? Isn't that an unfair selection?

It would have been a tiny, tiny increase in chance. Perhaps not quite as slim a chance as winning the lottery, but not far off.

bwals92 wrote: »

I feel that my wages will be impacted quite drastically because of doing this. I don't believe I will have enough money for the travelling etc and smart clothes to attend, especially when my workplace doesn't have to pay me and I have to claim my expenses back after the presumed summoning period -which would be much later than my workplace would pay me. This is dangerously close to Christmas too.

You get paid for jury service (if your work won't reimburse you, the courts will... although admittedly not a lot). You don't need new clothes. And we had info about reclaiming bus/tube tickets on the first day. If you're going to have trouble buying the initial ticket, give the jury people a call and see what they say.

Uncertain

denla wrote: »

You should be honoured to have this jury service experience. Just take out a loan! Don't bother claiming anything. Just pay the loan and interest back with your own salary. That's part of signing up for jury service. You telling me you didn't think of all this the moment you signed up?

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!

denla

Uncertain wrote: »

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!

And most of all, if it's a criminal case, you get to take part voting to sentence the suspect to prison! More fun for you, whether s/he is innocent or not. Pahahahahahaha!!!

Um...


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bwals92

denla wrote: »

And most of all, if it's a criminal case, you get to take part voting to sentence the suspect to prison! More fun for you, whether s/he is innocent or not. Pahahahahahaha!!!

Um...


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rightly so, especially with jury nullification...

Uncertain

denla wrote: »

And most of all, if it's a criminal case, you get to take part voting to sentence the suspect to prison!

No you don't actually. The jury decides innocence or guilt. If guilty the sentence is entirely a matter for the judge.

denla

Uncertain wrote: »

No you don't actually. The jury decides innocence or guilt. If guilty the sentence is entirely a matter for the judge.

If the Judge makes a fuss just sack him/her with a plastic bag, put the Judge in the storage room while you carry on taking pleasure sentencing the suspect in absence of a judge! Isn't that amazing?!

Wit I say. Wit. :cool: