Jury Service.

A question about : Jury Service.

I was called up for Jury Service, for October this year, although I got it deferred as I am in university living away from home couldn't make it.
My new date is July 2013, so I thought I'd be living at home again, although I have recently been offered to go to Australia for 3 months this summer June-August, and it is something I really want to do and this opportunity may be a once in a lifetime and I don't want to say no just because of a week in July where I have to do jury service.
Could I be excused or deferred again? Or is that it and I have to do it?

Best answers:

• You can only defer once in a 12 month period. I dont think they would except your trip as a legitimate reason for not being able to attend a second time.
• Yes, you can only defer once.
  See here:
  https://www.adviceguide.org.uk/englan...ry_service.htm
• I was once called up for jury service and re-arranged my holiday plans. The day before I was informed that I was not required.
  I have been advised to go to Doctor say you are so stressed about the prospect you cannot sleep etc and get a doctors note. This may be an urban myth? If I am called again, I will try anything to avoid my "civic duty".
  I would not forgoe the trip of a lifetime on the off chance I may be called.
• As a last resort, I would pay the Ј1000 fine.
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• The easiest thing by far is just ring them and ask.
• I deferred my jury service when at university in 1999. They deferred til July and I was called up very quickly. Some other did not bother to turn up, got hauled before his lordship and walloped with the fine. As he was the high court, he told them where they could appeal his decision, the House of Lords. Needless to say, they were dismissed. Us, we hung our guilty one, got fed and watered for five days. His Lordship was a smoker, so each sitting lasted about forty minutes until fag break.
• I must be the only person in the country eligible to do jury service who would love to do it and has never been called.
• and please remember the guy who said he was sick so couldn't go, who actually went to the theatre with his mum - he got a custodial sentance. Phone and ask!!
• Jury service is very boring to be honest.
  You dont just go there, sit on a jury, and go home.
  You are kept hanging around for hours, you may be then sent home because there is no case.Then you have to go back to work in the afternoon.
  You may do 2 days, then you may not have to go at all, just 'be available'
  When there is a case you may not be chosen for it.
  When you are chosen, you are still kept hanging about for hours for this for that.
  Boring, boring, I would rather have been flogging me pan out at work.
• Probably wouldn't recommend it, but here is an alternative approach to getting out of it:
  https://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...-and-anti-gay-