Jury service

[JorahsMistress]

Im doing jury service in a few weeks and was looking today at the list of things you can claim for, on there it states that if your required to stay overnight the court will arrange this

My question is why would they require you to stay overnight? I tried to google my question but didn't come up with anything other than "the court will arrange accommodation if you are required to stay overnight" which I already knew, couldn't find anything to explain why they might require you to stay overnight

If the jury is deciding a verdict and they run out of time they may be kept overnight.

Badly phrased but that's the gist

Yes it for deciding guilt for not guilty

Unless you may be taken to the crime scene and it’s some distance away

Even if you run out of time you’ll most likely be sent home and called back in the next morning to co tiniest deliberation, obviously with strict instructions not to say anything to anyone.

It’s not common to put a jury in a hotel any more. Maybe if it’s a high profile case.

I did jury service recently and our usher told us this only happens if it's a very high-profile/emotive case.

You could call the court office staff and ask them; I didn't need to do so, but I did have a couple of minor questions/issues for them and they couldn't have been nicer or more helpful.

x-posted a bit. But Blue is right –that's how it was with mine, which took us two days/nights to conclude. You just get told very firmly that you can't discuss it with anyone.

It's very very rare.

When a jury retires to consider its verdict, they must all deliberate together as a group. In historic times once they retired they weren't allowed to separate at all until they reached a verdict.

Today normally, once verdict deliberation has started it is considered fine for them to be directed they must not discuss the case with anyone else and only deliberate when they are all together - so if at the end of day 1 of deliberations, if they haven't reached a verdict they go home separately and reconvene at court for day 2.

In some cases, if it is felt necessary that the jury be properly sequestered (kept together and apart from the public) they would be kept overnight in a hotel. I can't imagine when this would happen today as there is no way the government would pay for hotels if they didn't have to.

Maybe if there was a suggestion of interferring with the jury or threats that kind of thing.

Thanks for the replies guys makes total sense