I still miss Crown Court...
...lovely drama and the jury was made up of real members of the public. Hundreds of episodes apparently. Over at iPM, we're wondering whether you have done jury service. You can share what you know here.
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Is this inspired by your sick-day last week? That was the only time I saw the programme; when I was off school with a cold/measles.
That and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). When I watch the repeats of that programme, it makes me feel I should really have vapo-rub on my chest. (Which I do at the moment...)
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I never saw Crown Court. So, I've really missed something, have I?
Story of my life, really ...
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As I remember it, you occasionally had some famous actors playing the accused....
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Crown Court was fab. I too associate it with flu and a bad chest; as I do Chigley, Mr Benn and Bagpuss.
My other half was called as a witness once, about 40 years ago. Had to travel from his job in Chelmsford up to Glasgow, where he hung about all day and wasn't called because the case collapsed.
He was unimpressed.
Personally, I am unimpressed that, in all my years as an unhappy wage slave, I was never once given the excuse for a few days out of the office to do my civic duty. There is, you will agree, no justice!
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Same here Fifi, I too have never had the chance to do my civic duty (i.e. bunk off work for a few days), well not yet anyway. However, it was jury service which led me to my first role in contracting. The company who hired me had to back fill as a member of the team was on long term jury service. It was quite a meaty fraud case, which lasted just over a year.
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My favourite real-life account by someone of his jury-service comes from the USA and a case in which someone was accused of murder but had thrown away the gun he did it with. He was convicted because the bullets in the victim were from the same gun as one which had been used when he lost his temper in his flooded basement a few days before the killing, and repeatedly shot the sump-pump.
There is something glorious about a case resting on someone having filled a sump-pump full of lead.
I have just realised that apart from that American I don't know anyone who has told me they've done jury-service. That is seriously strange. Maybe people keep quiet about it for some reason?
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When I was a 2nd year student, my friend's younger sister who was a 1st year student (with an ambition to be a chiropodist, I remember) was called up for jury service.
We were being students in Glasgow.
.. I had lived 30 miles from the seat of learning for the previous 10 years.
... she had only just moved to Glasgow
.... after being at boarding school in the Scottish Highlands, and going home to Trinidad in the holidays!
I would however fight to the death to defend our jury system. Even though it consistently overlooks potential jurors who'd love to do their bit, in favour of those who bitch and grumble about having to take time off from making a living!
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Chris (6) I've done jury duty. I thought about putting my tuppence worth on the iPM Blog, but changed my mind as it was an unpleasant case.
Apart from that, the whole experience was okay - most of the time was spent sitting around, getting bored, drinking tea, chatting - not exactly the sort of thing that makes rivetting reading for other Bloggers ;o)
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