Hoping your 60th birthday will get you out of dreaded jury duty? Not so fast.
If a new proposal set to come before the Legislative Assembly is approved the age for those called to serve is bound to increase.
The Judicature (Amendment) Bill, 2012, will make anyone whose name appears on the Cayman Islands Register of Electors and who has not yet reached 70 years of age liable to serve on local juries.
The previous age limit for jury duty was for those who had not yet reached age 60.
The amended proposal also expands the list of individuals who are exempted from jury duty.
The full list includes: the governor, the deputy governor, any member of the Legislative Assembly, a judge, a magistrate, a spouse or child of the governor, deputy governor, judge, or MLA, a person employed by the Cabinet office, an attorney actively engaged in practice, a person registered to practice medicine here, an officer of a court of competent jurisdiction, a constable, a prison officer, or a mentally disabled person.
Anyone who has been charged with an offence that is currently before the court or anyone convicted of a criminal offence is also exempted from jury duty.
The jury pool selected six weeks before a session of a court would also be expanded from 72 to 124 people now typically selected, to 100 to 160 people selected as potential jurors.
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