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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Barman on April 27, 2011, 04:33:30 AM
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Can't read or write English? You could still serve on a jury under new rules designed to help immigrants
Jurors who cannot read English are being invited to decide the outcome of criminal trials.
Inability to understand the written language is no bar to serving on a jury, officials said.
Even those who cannot easily understand the spoken word could be asked to sit in judgment on those accused of crime.
The 200,000 people a year called for jury service are now all summoned with letters printed in seven languages as well as English to ‘encourage’ non-English speakers, it said.
Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380538/Cant-read-write-English-You-serve-jury-new-rules.html)
What a complete fuckwit Ken Clarke is.... Banghead
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Sadly, most people get off jury service. Only the knuckle draggers get involved.
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Never been asked. I think I'd be good at it. angel1
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I see you in the Hancock role
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fia.media-imdb.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTc1NTg5Mzc3MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDI5NjYyMQ%40%40._V1._SY317_CR6%2C0%2C214%2C317_.jpg&hash=b0e9486f8747c97ee7964b2ea7aac6d84dbd034f)
Twelve Angry Men (#5.4)
Hancock and Sid are members of the jury in a jewellery robbery trial. When a piece of the evidence, a diamond ring, goes missing, the entire jury become suspects.
Writers:
Alan Simpson, Ray Galton
Stars:
Tony Hancock, Sid James and Austin Trevor
Original Air Date:
16 October 1959