Working Brief: Roll up, roll up for some jury service

Belfast Telegraph;  August 20, 2007 ;   Lucy Cochrane;   443 words ......may wish to be excused from jury service and these include: - NI Assembly...allow employees time off for jury service. However, an employer who refuses...an employee time off work for jury service could potentially be fined for...

Reform jury service

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 15, 2005 ;   Deseret Morning News editorial;   401 words ...Most people grumble when a notice for jury service lands in their mailbox. Some just don't...compensate them while they are performing jury service, the $30 or $40 daily stipend for jury service may not be adequate to support their families...

Oklahoma Enacts Comprehensive Jury Service Law; Legislation Based on ALEC...

U.S. Newswire;  June 11, 2004 ;     431 words ......Executive Director. "That's why making jury service more appealing and rewarding to citizens...law will: -- Provide those summoned to jury service with the right to one automatic postponement...convenient time. -- Reduce the length of jury service from a two-week term with the ...

Going out of your way for jury service

The Journal Record;  February 24, 2000 ;   Patricia Presley;   387 words ......duty to make everyone who is called to jury service feel welcome, to see that their questions...will apparently guarantee release from jury service. It's really very simple. All one has...Marines or Air Force determine one's jury service would unreasonably interfere with the...

Commission proposes to extend upper age limit for jury service in HK

Xinhua News Agency;  January 28, 2008 ;     258 words ......proposes to extend upper age limit for jury service in HK HONGKONG, Jan. 28 (Xinhua...extending the upper age limit for jury service from 65 to 70 years old, according to a consultation paper on jury service criteria released here on Monday...

JURY SERVICE CRITERIA CHANGES PROPOSED

Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  January 28, 2008 ;     88 words ......Commission has proposed extending the upper age limit for jury service andreducing the categories of people automatically exempt from jury service. Releasing a consultation paper on jury service criteria today, the commission's Juries sub-committee...

Jury service.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  February 12, 2004 ;     188 words ......of people are randomly selected for jury service, here are some facts and tips to help...summoned. Some people do not qualify for jury service, because of certain criminal records...be excused if you have already done jury service or your religious beliefs are incompatible...

A new motion to make jury service more attractive.(USA)

The Christian Science Monitor;  May 23, 2005 ;     737 words ......same problem: how to entice people into jury service. A wide range of ideas is being tested...and hardship exemptions, to shortening jury service, and allowing one discretionary postponement...effort to educate the public on why jury service is important, experts say. The American...

State Courts Launch Employer Jury Service Education Campaign; Businesses...

PR Newswire;  May 8, 2003 ;     717 words ......businesses to compensate their employees for jury service. The campaign, One-Day or One-Trial...consider compensating their employees for jury service, if they do not already do so. Although...responsibility and voluntarily provide paid jury service leave. ONE-DAY OR ONE-TRIAL JURY ...

140 people fail to show for jury service

The Press;  February 3, 2000 ;     318 words ......Rotorua people who failed to attend jury service yesterday have to go to court to explain why. About 384 people were called for jury service at the High Court trial of 10 people...Initially 1000 people were summoned for jury service this week for the drugs-related High...

LEGAL MATTERS : Be sensitive over jury service, judges told.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 23, 2005 ;     285 words ...Applications to be excused from jury service should be dealt with ``sensitively and...commitmentsAround 480,000 people are summoned for jury service annually and previously less than half...of Parliament who has deferred their jury service to an apparently more convenient time...

Bosses may have to pay for jury service; Kenny MasAskill: Proposals.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 19, 2008 ;     541 words ......forced to pay workers while they are on jury service under a planned courts shake-up. Around...the justice system through taxes and jury service can already cause staffing problems...meal and travel allowances during their jury service. The compensation is not linked to earnings...

Middle classes are not dodging jury service any more, study finds

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 10, 2007 ;   Ben Leapman;   381 words ......under-represented among those summoned for jury service at only one out of 84 Crown Courts studied...that two-thirds of those summoned to do jury service successfully "dodged" the call. Middle-cla...doctors and other professionals from jury service. The rule change followed ...

Michael Jackson gets a summons for jury service.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 20, 2005 ;     63 words ...MICHAEL JACKSON has been called for jury service - four months after his acquittal for child abuse. The star, right, had a summons to report for jury service in Santa Barbara, California. He is likely to be excused when his lawyers file for an...

No more right to be excused jury service.

M2 Presswire;  December 5, 2003 ;     638 words ......Government: No more right to be excused jury service(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...entitled by right to be excused from Jury Service, will be eligible. Under the new legislation everyone called for jury service should serve unless there are...