jury service

staciiee · 24 April 2015 at 9:46PM

Sorry if wrong section I didnt know where to post... hubby has got jury service starting next week, work has ticked a box on the loss of earnings form saying that he cant return back to work before the 2 weeks if the jury service finishes before the 2 weeks. My question is say if my oh was only needed th first week will he still be able to claim loss of earnings for the second week even tho he isnt doing the service anymore ?Just with him not being able to return straight back to work he would lose the seconds week wage. Sorry if it doesnt make sense hope it does though thanks

jobbingmusician · 24 April 2015 at 10:08PM

I don't really know the answer to your question, but thought I would post just to say

1. Your question makes total sense.

2. Although I don't know the legal position, I have done jury service twice myself, so can speak from experience on this. If he does a week's trial in week 1, there won't be any presumption that he can't do anything in week 2. There will be plenty of trials only planned to last a day or so, so it would be very unlikely, in my limited experience, that he would be sent home for the whole of w2 - the British justice system just doesn't work like that!

staciiee · 24 April 2015 at 10:11PM

So he could be used for more than one trial during that two weeks?

mum2one · 24 April 2015 at 11:33PM

yes he could well be, as the other poster said some are 1 day hearings so he will have to attend/call in etc during the 2 weeks.

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staciiee · 25 April 2015 at 6:40AM

Ok thanks

Lioness_Twinkletoes · 25 April 2015 at 7:20AM

staciiee wrote: »

So he could be used for more than one trial during that two weeks?

Or none. I was called for jury service at the Old Bailey last year. I have always wanted to do it and was so excited. Two full weeks I was there and not once did I get called to serve. Absolutely gutted.

Undervalued · 25 April 2015 at 10:33AM

As I understand it (and this may be out of date) if he is not required for part of the time he should, if at all possible, return to work for the rest of the day or days. If there are valid reasons why that is not possible then expenses can be claimed.

patman99 · 25 April 2015 at 4:03PM

If the person worked in an enviroment where only a set number of people were needed to do the work and they would have no work, tools or space for him should he return part-way through a shift, then that should be a good-enough reason to claim for full expenses.

libra10 · 25 April 2015 at 4:19PM

My son did jury service several months ago, and in the two weeks was only called for two cases. The second was cancelled and my son allowed to finish early.

From memory, he did not need to attend court on the Friday and had the day off, returning to work the following Monday.

Good luck

Torry_Quine · 25 April 2015 at 4:29PM

When I did jury service if you weren't needed on the day then that was your service over. You certainly didn't have to keep going back to see if you were needed at a future date!

McKneff · 25 April 2015 at 4:55PM

Torry_Quine wrote: »

When I did jury service if you weren't needed on the day then that was your service over. You certainly didn't have to keep going back to see if you were needed at a future date!

I did Jury service twice at York and if you weren't chosen one day then you still had to go back on a daily basis because there were either 4 or six courts all going at once and starting and stopping at different time.

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