Kerre McIvor: Telling people off won t change jury service turnout
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In my year of living fabulously, the year I had off while I waited for this role to become vacant, I did lots of things that I suddenly found I had time for and one of those was jury duty.
I would have done it before but I d never received the call up. Now all of a sudden, my name had come up on the electoral roll and I was being called to fulfil my civic responsibility and I was thrilled to the boots.
Having been a court reporter for a number of years, I found jury trials fascinating. Of course, I only covered the newsworthy ones. There are undoubtedly jury trials that don t make headlines - but even when it’s all points of law, and contracts and signatures, surely if the fate of a person s freedom or reputation depends on your decision making, it s not going to be boring.
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