Posts Tagged ‘jury-service’

They think it’s all over
Well, they’re done with me — we reached a majority verdict at about 4.15pm, and were dismissed soon after. We actually got some verbal abuse as we left the court building, so the 12 of us toddled off to the pub afterwards. Hence me typing this whilst half-cut. Will probably re-do [...]

Maybe his mum blew the money down the Bingo!!!
Wednesday turned out to be a more interesting day in court, with quite a few comedy moments (think stereotypical East-end types). Thankfully the we got through the rest of the interview transcript in about half an hour, then the jury was sent down to the canteen for [...]

Don’t Panic!
The “Dad’s Army case”, as we’ve started to call it, is getting slightly more interesting, with tales of drugs, mysterious characters called Victory, and witnesses using words like “scumbag”, “dirtbag” and “filth”. Unfortunately Tuesday afternoon was spent listening to the prosecuting advocate and a detective reading out the transcripts of several interviews with the [...]

Shoot me now
Today I was called to sit on the jury of what must surely rank as one of the dullest trials ever to come before a court of law. It’s so tedious that I can’t be bothered writing the details of it right now — just thinking about it is liable to send me [...]

Popping in to say hello
Guaranteed another trial today, I thought to myself as I arrived at 10am. But no, it wasn’t to be. Sat chatting with a few of the jurors from Tuesday in the waiting room (Phoenix Nights, Man Utd.’s loss, crap daytime US soap on TV, more Elvis etc.). We had a good [...]

It wasn’t like this for Henry Fonda
There were only two new cases today, and I wasn’t selected to be on either jury, so no chance for me to hand out any Badger-justice. Fortunately about half the people from the jury I was on yesterday were in the same position as me, and we spent all [...]

Scumbags 1, Criminal Justice System 0
I was called for my first trial today. At 11am the Jury Manager called out 15 names, and we were led up to Court 12 on the 5th floor by an usher (there are two lifts exclusively for jurors’ use). Once inside the courtroom, we all sat down and waited [...]

Anti-climax
I started my jury service today. Luckily on Sunday night I checked the map they’d sent me to see if there was a particular entrance I needed to use. Turned out the court I was planning to go to, between Borough tube and Elephant, was actually the Inner London Crown Court, and not Southwark Crown [...]

I received notification a few days ago that I’ve been chosen for Jury Service at Southwark Crown Court next month. I’m half excited about this (a high-profile serial killer case could be… was going to say fun, but perhaps interesting is a more appropriate word), and half annoyed (inevitable loss of earnings, and I’ll probably [...]