Dury duty

italodisco

Hi,
I'm in for Dury duty tomorrow in Criminal Courts.

My main concern is that I had a week holiday abroad booked before I was summoned and I can't afford to cancel it as I will lose all the money spent on it.

What are my options, I hope there are any....

Cheers for any advice

Dirty Dingus McGee

italodisco wrote: »

Hi,
I'm in for Dury duty tomorrow in Criminal Courts.

My main concern is that I had a week holiday abroad booked before I was summoned and I can't afford to cancel it as I will lose all the money spent on it.

What are my options, I hope there are any....

Cheers for any advice

Your best option is to Hit them with your Rhythm Stick.

suicide_circus

Tell them you've a flight booked and asked to be excused. Bring receipts/booking confirmations printed.

Wyldwood

Just produce your booking confirmation to the court clerk and you'll be relieved of jury duty as far as I know (happened to one of the jurors when I was called a few years ago).

endacl

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Your best option is to Hit them with your Rhythm Stick.

Begin by hitting them slowly. Then hit them quick.

I think it's spelled "dury juty"...

corner of hells

Just be polite to the dudge ?

cml387

You'll need to wear new boots and panties..

ToddyDoody

What happens if you don't show up?

endacl

There ain't half been some clever bastards on this thread...

Annasopra

Why did you not tell them weeks ago about your holiday in fairness

RayM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94zkBGm1IoU

endacl

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Why did you not tell them weeks ago about your holiday in fairness

How'd you know the holiday is in Fairness?

Birneybau

Tell them, they'll be well dealous

HeidiHeidi

ToddyDoody wrote: »

What happens if you don't show up?

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/courtroom/jury_service.html
Offences

Under the Juries Act, the following offences are punishable by fines:

• Failing to attend for jury service without reasonable excuse, or not being available when called upon to serve as a juror or being unfit for service by reason of drink or drugs.
• Making or causing to be made on your behalf false representations.
• Serving on a jury knowing you are ineligible or disqualified.
• Giving false or misleading answers to the presiding judge regarding your qualification for jury service.
• Making or causing to be made on behalf of a person summoned as a juror any false representations to enable him or her to evade jury service.

RIGHTisRIGHT

endacl wrote: »

How'd you know the holiday is in Fairness?

Nah I think it's in May.;)

ToddyDoody

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/courtroom/jury_service.html
Offences

Under the Juries Act, the following offences are punishable by fines:

• Failing to attend for jury service without reasonable excuse, or not being available when called upon to serve as a juror or being unfit for service by reason of drink or drugs.
• Making or causing to be made on your behalf false representations.
• Serving on a jury knowing you are ineligible or disqualified.
• Giving false or misleading answers to the presiding judge regarding your qualification for jury service.
• Making or causing to be made on behalf of a person summoned as a juror any false representations to enable him or her to evade jury service.

All of these have occurred by the sounds of it. I wonder what the drunk / stoned juror was like.

You could dust tell them to dump off a pier...or a detty...

RIGHTisRIGHT

OP your best option is to sleep on it and when you get up have a decent breakfast and don't forget the orange duice for the vitamin d.
Then contact the dudge I am sure here or she will be very understanding when they read your correspondence.

Ruu

Commit a crime yourself (something small), hurry. The judge will let you off for your holidays anyway, they always do.

Mister Vain

The exact same thing happened to me OP. I just told them I had a holiday booked. I didn't need to show them proof.

corner of hells

How about getting yourself arrested tonight ,,then you'd have your jury to pick ,plead guilty and offer to imprison yourself in Fairness.

Depends on the county OP.

Here in Kerry most people show up for jury duty so they're rarely that pressed for numbers, and they may accept a reasonable excuse. The holiday one isn't great, where someone says on the first day of a criminal sessions they may be caught by work or holidays have heard judges ask for details, when were holidays booked etc.

corner of hells

Deleted User wrote: »

Depends on the county OP.

Here in Kerry most people show up for jury duty so they're rarely that pressed for numbers, and they may accept a reasonable excuse. The holiday one isn't great, where someone says on the first day of a criminal sessions they may be caught by work or holidays have heard judges ask for details, when were holidays booked etc.

Aha ,,I knew you were a judge . Do you have a wig and cape ? Do pretend to be batman when nobodys looking ?

bear1

Is this in the local durys inn?

maudgonner

I hate when Blockheads pick on people's spelling.

corner of hells

corner of hells wrote: »

Aha ,,I knew you were a judge .

I wish!

sdanseo

italodisco wrote: »

Hi,
I'm in for Dury duty tomorrow in Criminal Courts.

My main concern is that I had a week holiday abroad booked before I was summoned and I can't afford to cancel it as I will lose all the money spent on it.

What are my options, I hope there are any....

Cheers for any advice

My main concern is that your attention to detail may be just a tad in need of improvement.....and you may have to decide whether or not to send someone to prison.

corner of hells

maudgonner wrote: »

I hate when Blockheads pick on people's spelling.

Guilty .

JCX BXC

Question, can you book a holiday for the dates of the trial after you're summoned and use that as an excuse?

Annasopra

You could show up then tell them the defendant is well known to you

Spanish Eyes

Daysus, this is dust terrible. What can you ju?

Annasopra

maudgonner wrote: »

I hate when Blockheads pick on people's spelling.

Whats a blockhead?

maudgonner

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Whats a blockhead?

They're like blackheads, but instead of being annoyed that you've got bad skin, you see them as Reasons to be Cheerful.

Iwasfrozen

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Whats a blockhead?

He means blockheaj.

The Backwards Man

Think ye are all funny do ye? The poor OP made a simple mistake and no you're all hounding them.

Why don't you get back into bed, the lot of ye.

JCX BXC

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Think ye are all funny do ye? The poor OP made a simple mistake and noW you're all hounding them.

Why don't you get back into bed, the lot of ye.

Omitting W's now are we?

Spanish Eyes

Back to OP's dilemma (spelling aside).

Jury service tomorrow. We do not know when the holiday is booked for, maybe OP will come back on that one.

OP may not be called tomorrow or the next day or the next. Depends on the peremtory challenge to jurors that is open to the Defence. Anyway.

Say you are called for service tomorrow. The trial may only last a few days, may last a few weeks.

When are the holliers booked for?

BabysCoffee

Turn up. If you are called for a jury, explain the holiday to the judge and then you will be excused.

freshpopcorn

From what I've heard off people only a handful of the people called get picked.
Dress badly and say a few inappropriate things might get your off as well.

MonkieSocks

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Whats a blockhead?

Ian Juries Backing Band

mad muffin

https://i.imgur.com/KKxaLit.jpg

everlast75

The replies here are reasons to be cheerful..

skimpydoo

Any sex and drugs and rock and roll yet?

italodisco

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Back to OP's dilemma (spelling aside).

Jury service tomorrow. We do not know when the holiday is booked for, maybe OP will come back on that one.

OP may not be called tomorrow or the next day or the next. Depends on the peremtory challenge to jurors that is open to the Defence. Anyway.

Say you are called for service tomorrow. The trial may only last a few days, may last a few weeks.

When are the holliers booked for?

The end of May, last week of the month. I sent them copies of all holiday related bookings with my reply to them and they just resent the letter that states I must be there tomorrow.

italodisco

bear1 wrote: »

Is this in the local durys inn?

Hahaha!!!

italodisco

An Incorrect spelling I'll never forget lol!!!!!!!!

HeidiHeidi

That's a full month away.

The vast majority of trials don't take anything like a month, more like a few days.

I presume that if you wound up being picked for a trial that might go on that long (which in the overall scheme of things is a very small chance) then you could raise the issue of your booked holiday at that point.

(I'm guessing at the last bit above, never having been involved in the jury process, so happy to be corrected on that)

evolving_doors

Just tell em you regularly post right wing misogynist racist stuff on boards... Then claim the name of some nutjob who was recently banned.

Spanish Eyes

italodisco wrote: »

The end of May, last week of the month. I sent them copies of all holiday related bookings with my reply to them and they just resent the letter that states I must be there tomorrow.

Turn up. You must.

So you have the guts of five weeks (if you are called). I'd say you'd be fine.

Look up the Courts website to see what cases are due to be heard tomorrow. That might give you an idea of which cases are on tomorrow and the possible length of them.

But turn up you must. IMV.

I would have a chat with the Court Clerk if called. S/he might have the inside track as to how long the case will last. It would be very unusual for a case to last longer than a month.

maudgonner

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Turn up. You must.

...
But turn up you must.

Yoda?

:pac: