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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Jury Jooty
Stuff has a piece bemoaning the invasion of New Zild's juries by beneficiaries and superannuitants!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3317482a11,00.html
Much hand wringing and learned comment from eagles and polies. Funny how no-one seems to have noticed that the 'new improved' rate of pay equates with about what a superannuitant or beneficiary might receive. Even funnier how only 20% of those called actually turn up.
Seems beyond the wit of man to understand that a person on a salary of $70k might find all sorts of reasons to 'not do his duty' when his duty involves a commitment to unlimited time on an income of $15k while the bank manager holds out his hand for the mortgage payment.
If we can afford to pay 3,000 million dollars a year for a bit of CO2 then we surely can afford to pay jurors $200 per day.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3317482a11,00.html
Much hand wringing and learned comment from eagles and polies. Funny how no-one seems to have noticed that the 'new improved' rate of pay equates with about what a superannuitant or beneficiary might receive. Even funnier how only 20% of those called actually turn up.
Seems beyond the wit of man to understand that a person on a salary of $70k might find all sorts of reasons to 'not do his duty' when his duty involves a commitment to unlimited time on an income of $15k while the bank manager holds out his hand for the mortgage payment.
If we can afford to pay 3,000 million dollars a year for a bit of CO2 then we surely can afford to pay jurors $200 per day.
8 Comments:
I was just reading this in the Dom Post. My favourite bit was:
In the same period, the number of beneficiaries on juries has tripled to more than 700 a year, and one lawyer claims the increases have "reduced the pool of available common sense".
Now just stand back and wait for beneficiaries to get all huffy.
And I thought beneficiary numbers had declined so dramatically because of the wisdom of our glorious leader.
No Kent. They are just too sick to work.
Not sick enough to commit robberies, assault, conduct vigilante justice etc Adolf...
I was called up to Jury duty earlier this year the week before I had to go back to Uni. I politely told them to get stuffed as I had better things to do with my time (like earning money to pay for books and transport). I certainly didn't want to get in a situation where I was stuck in a court case when I was supposed to be in lectures.
We could have professional juries. Say a pool of 500 who are paid a salary to be jurors. They could travel the country etc. Imagine the stories they could tell. Be cheaper too I reckon.
But the juriors wouldn't be peers, Gooner.
They would if they were representative (ie mixture of race, creed, gender etc).
I couldn't afford to sit on a jury. Period.
Why don't they pay people on a jury just the amount of money they would earn otherwise?
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