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You can make yourself exempt by behaving in a way that would automatically want the courts to not have you on their premises as part of a jury. Worked for me, never heard from them since. Being self-employed it would have cost me a packet because I think I was warned it could be 3-4 weeks.

Have you received a Guide to Jury Summons, and a Reply to the Jury Summons form?


The former (available via https://www.gov.uk/jury-service ) says:

You have the right to be excused from the jury service if you have served as a juror, or attended to serve on a jury, during the two years preceding service of the juror summons. You may serve again if you wish, but you may exercise your right of excusal by completing Part 3 of the form ?Reply to the Jury Summons?. Please ensure you provide details of the court you attended, as we will check your service.

 

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> Please tell us more :))


I suspect a BNP/EDL t-shirt would go a long way. But the downside would be that you'd be wearing a BNP/EDL t-shirt in public.

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> I suspect a BNP/EDL t-shirt would go a long way.

> But the downside would be that you'd be wearing a

> BNP/EDL t-shirt in public.



Oh God, that reminds me of when I wore my Hope Not Hate t-shirt out locally (acquired after I had been leafleting in Dagenham in 2010).


I thought I was getting strange looks, and it wasn't till I got home that I realised that although the t-shirt said on the front "Barking & Dagenham Council Elections 2010 Final Score Hope 51 BNP 0" my jacket had obscured most of the words apart from BNP :))


I've been wary of wearing it since then :))

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> > BNP/EDL t-shirt in public.

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> Oh God, that reminds me of when I wore my Hope Not

> Hate t-shirt out locally (acquired after I had

> been leafleting in Dagenham in 2010).

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> I thought I was getting strange looks, and it

> wasn't till I got home that I realised that

> although the t-shirt said on the front "Barking &

> Dagenham Council Elections 2010 Final Score Hope

> 51 BNP 0" my jacket had obscured most of the

> words apart from BNP :))

>

> I've been wary of wearing it since then :))


I went to an IT conference and met a guy who worked for BNP Paribas, the conference organiser just gave him a badge "BNP" and he was reduced to telling everyone he met that he was not an IT guru from the British National Party.

Never been called but would be happy to ?do my duty?.


My other half, on the other hand, is a magistrate and therefore, effectively, does jury duty voluntarily every week (albeit ?judge and jury duty? alongside two others) - for no financial reward or compensation whatsoever (beyond travel expenses).


Without magistrates the whole judicial system would grind to a halt. Virtually all criminal cases and most civil cases are first heard in a magistrates court. My understanding is that somewhere in the region of 95% of criminal cases are dealt with in their entirety at that level.

I was called to do jury service during the week my first baby was due. I asked to be excused from jury service on the grounds that I might go into labour in court. I was told that it wasn't a good enough reason not to do it. They reversed their decision when I said that I happy to do my duty as long as there was a midwife in the court!
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