If you are summoned for jury service, you can only be excused in special circumstances. Valid reasons for exemption include illness, pregnancy, blindness or deafness, or domestic or business difficulties. Write to the Clerk of the Court as soon as you receive the summons, giving your reasons.
Members of certain professions, such as magistrates, coroners, barristers and solicitors, prison officers, police officers, clergy and ministers of religion are ineligible. Doctors, dentists, nurses, mid-wives, MPs, peers and members of the armed forces may refuse.
If you have been convicted of a criminal offence within the previous 10 years you are disqualified.
If you have not lived in the UK, Channel Islands or isle of Man for at least 5 years since the age of 13, you are ineligible.
If you have served on a jury (except a coroner's jury) within the previous 2 years you can refuse.
As a juror, you are not paid but may claim certain daily allowances such as subsistence, travel and loss of earnings.
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