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"Is it just 10 yrs? I thought it was: criminal conviction = ineligible for life."Apparently not.
"Isn't that for "being an MP"..?" I don't know abouit that, but I'm not sure the Conservatives have even allowed him to rejoin the Party.
He is a Lord 'though, isn;t he? Doesn't that make him not only ineligible to be an MP (didn't Anthony Wedgwood Benn have to disavow his own title in order to become / remain an MP?) but also again make him ineligible for jury service?
It would be a bit of a joke if, as a Peer, he is member of the ultimate Court Of Appeal whilst simultaneously being ineligibe for jury service - but then Lord Archer's entire life seems to have been filled with such incongruities.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
House of Lords as a Higher Court is not the same as the House of Lords as a legislative body, i.e. the legal function of the House of Lords is restricted to a v. small group of Law Lords. I can't remember the relevant version of the Jury Act but I'm fairly certain that Lords can sit on a jury too.
― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link