You must provide a medical certificate for the court. A medical certificate that is requested from a doctor for jury service is exempt from payment. You should tell the doctor's surgery why you need the certificate, and if you have any difficulty in getting the certificate free of charge, you should refer the surgery to the law that provides for the exemption from payment of the fee: The National Health Service General Medical Services Contracts Scotland Regulations There's detailed information about jury service on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals website.
After 5pm on the evening before you're due to attend the court, you should phone the dedicated phone number on your citation. A recorded message will tell you what time you should arrive at the court the next day.
If you can't phone, you should attend the court at the time indicated on your citation. When all those who've been called for jury service have arrived, the clerk of court will talk to you all about what's involved in being a juror. When it's known that the trial is going ahead, the clerk will randomly select 15 people 12 people in a civil trial to serve on the jury.
If you're not selected, or if the trial is no longer going ahead, you could be recalled a few days later to serve on another jury. Attendance at court for the purpose of being selected for a jury is unlikely to last more than a week. It's difficult to estimate the exact duration of any trial. During selection of a jury, either side in the case could lodge an objection to a juror. If it's a joint objection, you may not become part of the jury.
If just one side objects, a reason must be given and the judge will decide whether you should be excused or not. If you have any personal knowledge of the case, know anyone involved or work for the same employer as the accused but don't know the person, you should tell the clerk of court immediately. The judge or sheriff will decide whether you should be excused from serving as a juror.
If you've been selected for jury service and have a disability for which you need assistance, you should contact the court. If you're selected to serve on a jury, you'll be sworn in. The clerk of court will administer the oath. This process is called swearing in. You can use a process to affirm instead of swearing the oath. Affirming means that you make a non-religious promise before the court that you will try the case faithfully and reach a true verdict on the evidence presented.
You should give the clerk prior notice if you wish to affirm. The judge will explain to you what's going to happen. Witnesses are brought before the court to give evidence. Each witness is questioned by the Crown, who prosecutes the case, and by the defence. The accused is also called to give evidence. You will have paper and a pencil for taking notes about the evidence presented to the court. There is more useful information about the trial process on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals website.
When all the evidence has been presented and the judge or sheriff has addressed the jury, they will ask you to retire to the jury room, appoint a spokesperson and consider your verdict.
Once the trial has started, if you become unwell overnight or over the weekend and can't return to the court, you must inform the court and provide evidence. Once the trial has begun, you must not discuss the case with anyone except fellow jurors, and then only in the jury room. Mobile phones and computers aren't allowed in the jury room.
You'll also be instructed not to look in the media for any information about the case in question. The court's permission is needed if anyone, for example the media or members of the public, wants to use text-based devices to communicate directly from the court.
You may not leave the court during the lunch break. You must remain with the other members of the jury. When the jury has retired to reach a verdict and hasn't reached one by the end of the day, it's possible that the judge or sheriff will ask you to go to a hotel. The rules about confidentiality still apply in overnight accommodation. It is contempt of court, punishable by imprisonment or a fine, for you to discuss, for example, statements made or votes cast by members of the jury, even long after the trial has ended.
It's also contempt of court for anybody to try to obtain such information from a juror. It's a criminal offence to intimidate, bully or attempt to influence you when you're serving on a jury.
If anyone tries to do this, you must report what has happened to the clerk of court. If you feel threatened at any time by a gesture, word or action, you should inform any court official or police officer immediately. Before you're asked to leave the courtroom to decide the verdict, the judge will address you in what is known as a 'charge'. You'll be told what evidence you must consider in coming to the verdict and you may be given instructions, or 'directions', about how to consider that evidence.
Back in the s and s such letters worked, but today the courts are less keen to excuse people. You can understand why — I think the problem was that juries started to be largely made up of retired people and the unemployed.
Some people are automatically excluded from a summons. Neither can you serve if you have been in prison in the past 10 years. You are a member of the armed forces and your absence would be prejudicial to the efficiency of the service. Most other excuses are treated as reasons to defer, not to avoid, jury service.
You can even find yourself on a jury sitting next to a judge. They are only excused if they are known to parties involved in the trial. Other than that, they have to turn up, too. Much more commonly, you can delay jury service but only once, and you have to say when you will be available over the next 12 months.
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Knowledge Base. Specific occupations and professions. Juror Jury Service. Qualification for jury service Juries Act Section 1 Subject to the provisions of the Juries Act , every person shall be qualified to serve as a juror in the Crown Court, the High Court and county courts and be liable accordingly to attend for jury service when summoned under this Act, if— a he is for the time being registered as a parliamentary or local government elector and is not less than eighteen nor more than seventy years of age; and b he has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for any period of at least five years since attaining the age of thirteen, but not if he is for the time being ineligible or disqualified for jury service; and the persons who are ineligible, and those who are disqualified, are those respectively listed in Parts I and II of Schedule 1 to this Act.
Principle Article 6 1 ECHR requires trial by an independent and impartial tribunal Archbold [] The principles which are generally to be observed are: members of a jury should be selected at random from the panel, subject to any rule of law as to right of challenge by the defence; the Juries Act and the Juries Disqualification Act identify those classes of person who alone are disqualified from or ineligible for service on a jury.
No other class of persons may be treated as disqualified or ineligible; and the correct way for the Crown to seek to exclude a member of the panel from sitting as a juror is by the exercise in open court of the right to request a stand by or challenge for cause.
The parties to any jury trial may inspect a copy of the panel from which the jury in their trial will be chosen, in order to: enable the parties to inquire about members of the panel; and decide whether any should be challenged There are 2 types of jury vetting checks : a Criminal Records Bureau CRB check which is now automatically conducted on each juror to assess qualification against jury service criteria.
Guidance Criminal Records Bureau CRB Checks Parliament has improved safeguards against jurors who may be corrupt or biased by: the provision of majority verdicts; and the Juries Act which provides a sanction of a criminal offence for a disqualified person to serve as a juror. Defence Request for a Jury Check The defence will not have access to the information available to the prosecution but may wish to: have the panel checked for disqualified persons; or seek assistance in obtaining information regarding the right to challenge.
Authorised Jury Checks There are certain exceptional types of cases of public importance for which the provisions as to majority verdicts and disqualifications of jurors may be insufficient to ensure the administration of justice. Challenging Jurors The methods of replacing one or more of the prospective jurors called into the box are: for the prosecution to ask a juror to stand by; or for either the prosecution or the defence to challenge for cause; or for the judge to use his discretionary power to remove a juror.
The circumstances in which it would be proper for the Crown to exercise its right to stand by a member of the jury panel are: to remove a manifestly unsuitable juror, but only if the defence agree; and to remove a juror in a terrorist or security case in which the Attorney General has authorised a check of the jury list, but only on the authority of the Attorney General.
Improper Approaches to Jurors Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act Archbold [] provides that it is a contempt of court to seek information from a juror as to what occurred in the jury room.
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