{"id":556748,"date":"2025-11-08T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:02:16","slug":"northern-ireland-juries-mlas-and-civil-servants-are-gorging-on-taxpayer-subsidised-food-while-juries-are-refused-so-much-as-a-toaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556748\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland juries: MLAs and civil servants are gorging on taxpayer-subsidised food while juries are refused so much as a toaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">They are trusted to decide on complex cases but aren\u2019t being trusted to operate a microwave \u2013 and refused any food. Northern Ireland is by far the worst part of the British Isles in which to be a juror\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jurors in Northern Ireland are being treated shabbily when it comes to being fed in comparison to our MLAs who can dine in Stormont\u2019s taxpayer subsidised restaurant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c71a22ac-079d-4df2-8013-f2b6415bc458.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jurors in Northern Ireland are being treated shabbily when it comes to being fed in comparison to our MLAs who can dine in Stormont\u2019s taxpayer subsidised restaurant<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In Laganside\u2019s court 13, a jury has been sitting intermittently since September. They\u2019re being trusted to hear a complex months-long fraud trial in which their verdict could send two men to jail \u2013 but aren\u2019t trusted to operate a toaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The jury in the Nama fraud trial this week inadvertently exposed an absurdity and an injustice at the heart of Northern Ireland\u2019s justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are trusted to decide on complex cases but aren\u2019t being trusted to operate a microwave \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[14925,7742,91391,1144,39255,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-556748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-justice","9":"tag-nama","10":"tag-naomi-long","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-northern-ireland-assembly","13":"tag-sam-mcbride","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115512800218107454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}