The govt just took a teacher out of school for jury duty for up to one month. The pupils will now have supply teachers and others. So the govt has disrrupted 30 pupils in one go. Result? "
There is also a bit of difference between the needs of a fair legal system to have a balance of individuals on a jury, on what could be a court case of some real importance to several individuals, compared with a parents desire to take their kids to Torremolinos for a week in the sun and avoid paying the market price - even if times 30.