Casta Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I understand that juries here are selected by going through a register alphabetically. If someone is called for duty, generally when might they be called on for another stint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 18 years between my first call up and second call up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 24 minutes ago, Gizo said: 18 years between my first call up and second call up. On that basis I should have done it around 3 times. I've never been asked to do it once yet. I think it must be a far more convoluted process than 'alphabetically'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Isn't it random from the electoral roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Its by surname, alphabetically, on the electoral roll, based on the sheadings originally, to make it representative of all Island. It’s now by constituency. 12 constituencies. 4 from each every time a jury is empanelled. Then 7, or 12, are selected at random from the 48, by drawing lot. Given there are on average 6000 people over 16 living in each constituency, of whom 5350 are registered, and ignoring those who can’t sit, recent prison, over age, medically excused, practising lawyers, etc, even with 50 juries a year it’d take 30 years, on average, to be called again 2 hours ago, Casta said: I understand that juries here are selected by going through a register alphabetically. If someone is called for duty, generally when might they be called on for another stint? 1 hour ago, Gizo said: 18 years between my first call up and second call up. 56 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: On that basis I should have done it around 3 times. I've never been asked to do it once yet. I think it must be a far more convoluted process than 'alphabetically'. 44 minutes ago, Gladys said: Isn't it random from the electoral roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver2020 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Been called three times never been picked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Obviously the lawyer knows more about me and how many times I’ve been selected. Jeez when will his pompousness stop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 3 minutes ago, Gizo said: Obviously the lawyer knows more about me and how many times I’ve been selected. Jeez when will his pompousness stop? He knows his stuff and is involved in it. Have you moved during all that time? Been on different rolls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 17 minutes ago, Gizo said: Obviously the lawyer knows more about me and how many times I’ve been selected. Jeez when will his pompousness stop? He did say "on average" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 41 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: He knows his stuff and is involved in it. Have you moved during all that time? Been on different rolls? No both times Port Erin. First time I went on selection it was basically a south day jolly. I knew basically everyone there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 The problem with the methodology is that the electoral list changes every year. So, if lots of people join the list with a name before yours, or constituencies change from 1 or 3 seats to 2, as they did, it messes up the sequencing. Its perfectly possible to be selected more frequently than the theoretical average, or not at all. its really a method suited to a static non mobile population. Sorry I’ve annoyed @Gizo by summarising. 1 hour ago, Gizo said: Obviously the lawyer knows more about me and how many times I’ve been selected. Jeez when will his pompousness stop? 1 hour ago, Declan said: He did say "on average" 37 minutes ago, Gizo said: No both times Port Erin. First time I went on selection it was basically a south day jolly. I knew basically everyone there. Hazarding a guess, but between time 1 and time 2 had Rushen changed from a 3 seat constituency to a 2 seat constituency? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Hate to support Gizo, but I've been called twice in a simillar period - also Port Erin but each time it was cancelled a week or so before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Mrs X has been called twice too. (not Port Erin) One of them may have been for me, but as I am job excluded they probably just chose the next one on the list for the address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 (edited) I think I've been called five times the first in 1987 and the last was 2019 which I was chosen for, absolute purgatory five days of my life that I'll never get back! Edited February 3 by finlo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casta Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Some interesting and varied replies, thanks all. My address is Douglas and. I was called up for a second time in about 6 or 7 years. (I remember the Golden Egg murder trial had half a dozen or so Smiths on the jury, all apparently unrelated. It must have been an all-Island list then). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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