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From: "Rosemary Jarvis" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] qualification for jury service?
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:12:05 +0100
References: <200506071927_MC3-1-A0F0-9152@compuserve.com>


also some professions could claim an exemption - certainly civil servants
could and were expected to.

Ros


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Wilkes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:26 AM
Subject: [SoG] qualification for jury service?


> The only criterion (apart from eligibility to vote) that applied to any
> register for which I submitted a form was that of age. If you were over
> the age limit, you did not get a "J", and if you were below it you did.
> Being under the age limit, I received two jury summonses while I was
> ineligible for professional reasons. It was up to me to return the
summons
> saying why I was not eligible (or, as the case might be, exempt or
> disqualified).
>
> However, I recall that at an earlier time there was provision for
> identifying householders, I think by requiring their names to be placed
> first on the form. If I remember correctly, the first-named was taken to
> be the householder (and therefore liable under the law at that time)
unless
> it was made clear that there were joint householders.
>
> Jeremy Wilkes
>

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