Jury Summons

[djfoot]

Anybody been called up whilst contracting? What have you done about addressing the shortfall in daily rate v maximum daily allowance of £56?

Not an issue for a few days, but if it goes on for months, (I know they rarely do but you never know), I shall have to send the kids down the mines.

[Pondlife]

Anybody been called up whilst contracting? What have you done about addressing the shortfall in daily rate v maximum daily allowance of £56?

Not an issue for a few days, but if it goes on for months, (I know they rarely do but you never know), I shall have to send the kids down the mines.

You can get insurance for it - The PCGPlus membership gives you it I think. It may not cover your fully daily rate though and you can only claim for a max number of days.

Edit: PCGPlus covers for £300 per day for upto 10 days

[djfoot]

You can get insurance for it - The PCGPlus membership gives you it I think. It may not cover your fully daily rate though and you can only claim for a max number of days.

Edit: PCGPlus covers for £300 per day for upto 10 days

Nice one. I'll take a look, but I would've thought that they'd only cover you before you were summonsed...

Edit: Just checked....policy would needed to have been taken out before the summons was issued. Thanks for the heads up though...

[Pondlife]

Nice one. I'll take a look, but I would've thought that they'd only cover you before you were summonsed...

Oh! Bit late then. Time to start acting sexist, racist and generally subversive. Or alternatively you have to get yourself a criminal record PDQ.

HTH

[AtW]

Do you civil duty and stop whining - there is a price to pay for living in a civil society where it is the people who decide whether defendant is guilty or not.

[wonderwaif]

I got called up for jury service.
I wrote asking to be excused on the grounds that I was self-employed and would suffer financial hardship through not being paid. I also said that my contract was due for renewal which may well not have happened if I was absent for two or more weeks.
They wrote back saying I did not have to attend.
I heard you can only do that once though, but I haven't been selected again since so don't know for sure.

[ratewhore]

Do you civil duty and stop whining - there is a price to pay for living in a civil society where it is the people who decide whether defendant is guilty or not.

[djfoot]

Do you civil duty and stop whining - there is a price to pay for living in a civil society where it is the people who decide whether defendant is guilty or not.

Isn't is just easier to shoot them?

Wasn't whining...I want to do it and see it as an important civil duty to ensure justice is done....it's just a shame that sentences are all too regularly way too lenient (BTW - I'm not assumming that the defendant is guilty just yet, but give me a couple of minutes in the courtroom and I'll make my decision then...).

[Clog II The Avenger]

Anybody been called up whilst contracting? What have you done about addressing the shortfall in daily rate v maximum daily allowance of £56?

Not an issue for a few days, but if it goes on for months, (I know they rarely do but you never know), I shall have to send the kids down the mines.

A derisory amount for jurors while barristers will get £300 to £600 per hour and a £50 lunch is a throw back from the days when the gentry ran the Courts. A hundred guineas for me and a nice shiny penny for you for, a juror. Even witnesses get more than jurors.

[xoggoth]

That's an idea. Let the jury set the sentences. Much more fun.