THE ban on pensioners carrying out jury service in Scotland should be lifted, a senior MSP yesterday said.
More than 200,000 Scots could be recruited if the age limit for jury service was raised above 65, according to former Tory leader David McLetchie, himself a lawyer.
At the moment, anyone above the age of 65 is excluded from sitting on a jury, but the Edinburgh Pentlands MSP said this fails to recognise older peoples' expertise and experience of life.
Pensioners have far better things to do than sitting on juries.
3 comments:
Pensioners have much less to do than people with jobs! I reckon they'd love it.
Unless they're bloggers, in which case they could be quite busy.
Being on a jury would be writing-material heaven for a blogging pensioner.
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