Lockdown #2

[ELTEL]

I have been selected for Jury Service from the 15th February.

 

 I have advised the court in good time that  I am 71 and that I have not had my first covid injection as yet.

 

I feel very stressed about the attending which seems to me totally against what I am told to do during lockdown.

 

All I get from the Court is that they will try not to call me, but I need to be available if required.

 

What has happened to common sense ?

 

Terry 

 

 

 

 

[rob D2]

7 minutes ago, ELTEL said:

I have been selected for Jury Service from the 15th February.

 

 I have advised the court in good time that  I am 71 and that I have not had my first covid injection as yet.

 

I feel very stressed about the attending which seems to me totally against what I am told to do during lockdown.

 

All I get from the Court is that they will try not to call me, but I need to be available if required.

 

What has happened to common sense ?

 

Terry 

 

 

 

 

I’d refuse, if you are putting yourself at increased covid risk.

if they object say they are messing with your mental health and threaten to contact the press .

[ELTEL]

I pleased to say that the matter has now been resolved and I will sleep better tonight.

 

Terry 

[ejstubbs]

Glad to hear you got it sorted out satisfactorily.

 

The other day my missus can received a jury citation for sometime in March.  It's for the High Court in Edinburgh, but she is only required to attend 'virtually'.  I actually thought most court hearings were being done that way at the moment.

 

Which seems like a perfect cue for this: Texas lawyer, trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a cat

Edited February 10, 2021 by ejstubbs

[big jim]

I know you say it’s resolved but I did jury duty during Covid and the court service were superb at making sure you weren’t out at risk, masks, social distancing etc, it was something I was worried about but needn’t have been

 

(also discovered yesterday that the peadophile we found guilty was put away for 15 years which was nice!) 

[caradoc]

I was cited for Jury service in January, this would not have meant attending the court but viewing proceedings virtually from a cinema hired for the purpose. The protective measures being taken were fully explained and I was quite happy with them, a greater concern was, when my car was unavailable, having to use two buses each way. As it happened I was not required, but would have attended otherwise. 

 

[ELTEL]

Thank you all for your supportive comments.

 

Not sure if you all in your seventies ?
 

It is a proven fact that gatherings in an enclosed areas are breeding grounds for Covid however well spaced you may be

 
Hence as I understand even with precautions in places such as theatres, cinema and bingo halls are all closed.

 

So why are courtrooms exempt from the regulations.

 

Terry 

 

 

[Reorte]

1 hour ago, ELTEL said:

Thank you all for your supportive comments.

 

Not sure if you all in your seventies ?
 

It is a proven fact that gatherings in an enclosed areas are breeding grounds for Covid however well spaced you may be

 
Hence as I understand even with precautions in places such as theatres, cinema and bingo halls are all closed.

 

So why are courtrooms exempt from the regulations.

We can't really put trials on hold until it's all over. There's both risk and necessity to consider (no different from anything else really), it's not just a case of "same level of risk, same response is appropriate."  So the same reason as supermarkets are open but bingo halls aren't.

[ELTEL]

But do they really need 71year olds that haven’t had any Covid jabs ?
 

That was the point I had with the court.

[Reorte]

4 minutes ago, ELTEL said:

But do they really need 71year olds that haven’t had any Covid jabs ?
 

That was the point I had with the court.

 

I agree with you on that, that should be a good reason for not being able to do jury duty. Yes, it places the burden of it more on other people than normal, which is something to generally be avoided, but these times are a reasonable justification for that.

[big jim]

i must admit i tried the critical worker angle to get out of jury duty but that fell on deaf ears

 

as for age, there were 4 on our jury 70+ and this was pre jab days at the start of november 

[caradoc]

I'm 61, and this was the second time I've been cited. But it seems so random, my Dad did jury service three times, my Mum never ! And my wife has never been cited either (maybe my Dad and I are simply classed as more upstanding citizens ?!) But I can understand why people have reservations. 

 

[ELTEL]

May I suggest it may be worth reading the attached........

 

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html

 

 

 

Terry 

 

 

[john new]

On 10/02/2021 at 09:49, ELTEL said:

I have been selected for Jury Service from the 15th February.

 

 I have advised the court in good time that  I am 71 and that I have not had my first covid injection as yet.

 

I feel very stressed about the attending which seems to me totally against what I am told to do during lockdown.

 

All I get from the Court is that they will try not to call me, but I need to be available if required.

 

What has happened to common sense ?

 

Terry 

Your post made me recheck the current rules as the cut-off used to be age 70 and I was very surprised by your post. I now see that, annoyingly, the sneaky b*****s have put the age cut off up to 75. 

[ELTEL]

5 hours ago, john new said:

Your post made me recheck the current rules as the cut-off used to be age 70 and I was very surprised by your post. I now see that, annoyingly, the sneaky b*****s have put the age cut off up to 75. 

Yes as I found out......

[Ohmisterporter]

I have been called twice for jury service and each time notified that I was not required to serve, a few days before the due date. The first one was the Birmingham bomb trial. 

[Reorte]

48 minutes ago, Ohmisterporter said:

I have been called twice for jury service and each time notified that I was not required to serve, a few days before the due date. The first one was the Birmingham bomb trial. 

 

Erk, wouldn't have wanted to get involved with that one.

 

I've had one call that I then got the "not needed" phone call a few days beforehand, much to my relief.

[NittenDormer]

I got so close one time, then the lawyers walked in and I knew one of them. Apparently it was a good un too.