What makes Britain completely crap?
#287
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
I'm sorry if you think I was being deliberately offensive. I was just trying to work out what the basis of your confusion was. Even if it was 30 years ago, it is quite odd to think that you
a) were on a jury with "volunteers" and "professionals" -- not possible.
b) that the court hearing a criminal case made an order regarding custody of children -- also not possible.
And for your information: the system of jury selection in England and Wales has not changed significantly in our lifetimes (I'm 61).
a) were on a jury with "volunteers" and "professionals" -- not possible.
b) that the court hearing a criminal case made an order regarding custody of children -- also not possible.
And for your information: the system of jury selection in England and Wales has not changed significantly in our lifetimes (I'm 61).
#288
Bitter and twisted
Joined: Dec 2003
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Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
#290
Bitter and twisted
Joined: Dec 2003
Location: Upmarket
Posts: 17,503
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
The changes were made in 2007 and the changes were phased in according to your birthdate....It was not a " sudden" change to the rules
#294
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,396
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
Checked the Guardian business section early today for stock movements and there is a headline ref the results for Aviva, the largest UK insurer.
Headline reads:
Insurance group Aviva takes £120m hit from UK storms and flooding
...
So much for the value of headlines. Any excuse for something negative.
Even the article proper starts with the same flood damage negative.
Headline reads:
Insurance group Aviva takes £120m hit from UK storms and flooding
...
So much for the value of headlines. Any excuse for something negative.
Even the article proper starts with the same flood damage negative.
I think some people just like to see negativity when it really isn't there.
#297
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 175
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
Pension age was 60, now it's 65 (for me), it may have been several years ago, but it was still sudden when you're planning for a future that includes a pension.
#298
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 175
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
I'm sorry if you think I was being deliberately offensive. I was just trying to work out what the basis of your confusion was. Even if it was 30 years ago, it is quite odd to think that you
a) were on a jury with "volunteers" and "professionals" -- not possible.
b) that the court hearing a criminal case made an order regarding custody of children -- also not possible.
And for your information: the system of jury selection in England and Wales has not changed significantly in our lifetimes (I'm 61).
a) were on a jury with "volunteers" and "professionals" -- not possible.
b) that the court hearing a criminal case made an order regarding custody of children -- also not possible.
And for your information: the system of jury selection in England and Wales has not changed significantly in our lifetimes (I'm 61).
If it appears to the court that a jury to try any issue before the court will be, or probably will be, incomplete, the court may, if the court thinks fit, require any persons who are in, or in the vicinity of, the court, to be summoned (without any written notice) for jury service up to the number needed (after allowing for any who may not be qualified under section 1 of this Act, and for excusals and challenges) to make up a full jury.
#299
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
a) it sounds to me like it would be possible, for people with nothing better to do, to hang around a court, making it known that they are available:
b) I never said it was a custody case, and they didn't make any orders regarding custody of the child, but the outcome was a criminal conviction and the child taken into care.
b) I never said it was a custody case, and they didn't make any orders regarding custody of the child, but the outcome was a criminal conviction and the child taken into care.
As I've already told you, a criminal court can't make a care order.
#300
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 175
Re: What makes Britain completely crap?
And as I've already told you, they didn't make a care order.