https://twitter.com/ConnorGillies
I've been following it here. The boy is peak wrong'un.
https://twitter.com/ConnorGillies
I've been following it here. The boy is peak wrong'un.
You're glad you didn't have to do jury duty for it but you're following all the grisly details on Twitter?
It's a bit different, considering the actual trial will include having to look at pictures of a dead and raped child amongst some other horrors.
It would make sense if you had a 9-5 just to get out of it and pretend you're poirot for a couple of weeks but outside of that? Nah.
Not sure I would have got very far with a loss of earnings claim.
It's difficult, because you want a good one. Fuck getting stuck with 2 weeks of tax evasion bollocks. You just don't want 'raped and murdered 6 year old' good.
You don't need to take them up for loss of earnings, you have to legally be paid when you're on jury duty by your employer don't you?
Dear Mr Bet365
It's just random, unless you declare yourself to have some sort of contamination (or whatever the word is). When I did it I met someone I did the bar with in the foyer, but he wasn't involved in the case I was selected for. It's not like America where Johnny Cochrane is weighing your soul and deciding whether to keep you or not.
Is it completely random? Do they not try to make the jury a bit diverse like gender- and age-wise or something?
They call more people to appear than they need because so many people doss it off and then they random lottery from that.
No, the idea of a jury of your peers does not exist over here unlike the US. I believe the Judge is more important in the UK as well?
In a British legal system, jurors are selected at random from the populace. However, in America, juries are selected from a cross-section of society. American juries are meant to represent a similar background to the defendant, hence the phrase “a jury of your peers”. The UK Ministry of Justice defends the practise as “fair, independent, and democratic”. Additionally, unlike in America, British jurors are not cross-examined by the attorneys to determine the jurors’ suitability, only being dismissed if there is some extraordinary circumstance that would render them incapable of an unbiased decision. In most American courts, attorneys may strike jurors that may have a bias, with some using it as an ability to craft a jury that will render a more desirable verdict.
Foolproof.Prosecution says “You raped Alesha MacPhail and your semen and DNA is all over her”
He replied “no”.
A hundred people received letters asking them to show up. You go up and ask for exemption if you have a good reason, and then fifteen are drawn from a hat from whoever is left.
We were told that "I don't want to look at dead kids" was a valid reason, but about seventy of the hundred stayed put and entered the draw.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/47278392
"Bobridge fell about 500m short of breaking the hour record. But he came close because he pushed his body far further than many would think possible, through sheer will."
And drugs. Lots and lots of lovely drugs.
FFS.
I once got called up for jury duty but my boss contacted them to say I was indispensable (Champ Man term) and they withdrew me. Hopefully I’m not out of the pot for good though, considering that was two jobs ago and I’d like to do it.
I'm a twit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47301007
"The 18-times Grand Slam winner wrote it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport as they had unfair physical advantages.
Athlete Ally said the remarks were transphobicand perpetuated myths."
U wot m8.
I mean, if it's a myth. Let's do the whole thing as a mixed competition.
Serena would still be the winner.
I'm a twit
In sports that are juddged on time and time only. The fastest men times, are faster than the fastest women times. Is there any timed sport where women are faster?
Women are physiologically better at running stupidly long distances, apparently.
It means the only thing I think women are physically at an advantage to as compared to men is running very long distances - like those 200km ultramarathon things (and even those might not be far enough).
This isn't really what I was thinking of, but have an old Mail link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-experts.html
Edit: not sure about the first woman example being called Rory though.
Just create a new category for the transformers
I'd watch the Transformers Olympics.
The really important question of the day is whether Henry or Giggles play the lottery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47298111
I reckon there's more than that.
I'll read more about the "Mandem Project" tomorrow.
Or, y'know, never.
Every sentence in this is its very own absolute crock of bollocks.Cephas Williams is tired of how people look at him when he wears his hoodie.
"I am a black man with a degree in architecture, and I find I am not taken seriously when I walk into a room full of strangers."
Cephas is now trying to change perceptions of black men through the use of photography.
The 27-year-old is an entrepreneur from New Cross, south-east London, who works in the community.
But he says people don't see him for the person he is - and are quick to judge and stereotype him.
Living up to the chippy black man stereotype to own the, erm...
Architects are (often) total bellends though so he's probably onto something.
They'd definitely look down on hoodies.
Well this one sure is.
It's an uphill struggle, to say the least, with a name like that.
I get alerted to this stuff by cricket twitter, but has anyone clocked the range of mental sanctions India's (extreme right nationalist) government has decided to impose on Pakistan after a terrorist bomb in Kashmir?
The last one I just saw was the governor of some state promising to begin works to divert a river so that it no longer flowed into Pakistan, thus denying them much needed water.
Keep it in the World War 3 thread.
Didn't one of the mental case Communists in China do something like that?
The Iranians are after them as well. For some reason, right, nobody believes Pakistan when it says it doesn't harbour Islamic terrorists. Harsh or what.
That lad's been found guilty in the Alesha McPhail case.
I'm in the pro-Pakistan lobby, albeit distancing myself from the Peter Oborne wing of it. BJP India is a crazed ethno-nationalist madhouse.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/47317052
To be held just after the medal ceremonies for hopscotch and oil painting.
Really no different to figure skating, and probably a lot more interesting
All sports that require judges should be banned.
I know that it would get rid of fan favorites like gymnastics and personal favorites like boxing, but sometimes you have to do what's right.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47311186
Good job catching it, now burn the island.
That would just make them angrier. And on fire.