Jury service while pregnant?

neverdespairgirl

I'm counsel, not a solicitor, and I do little criminal work these days - I now do mostly immigration, and I've not been in a Mags Court for ages. I'm prosecuting a trial starting tomorrow, but that's the first criminal trial I've done for a while, and is immigration-related crime.

clairec79

How far pregnant will you be?

I was called for when I'd be about 36 weeks pregnant, I wrote (I think I photocopied the front page of my maternity notes) and said I was pregnant and would be on maternity leave until September - they recalled me in October.

mell242

I've been called up twice, the 2nd time they excused me with no argument as I was in the middle of my university finals.

pickle

I called up just after my baby was born so I wrote in and said that I wasn't able to do jury service as I was breastfeeding and didn't have anyone to babysit. This was accepted.

Janepig

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm counsel, not a solicitor, and I do little criminal work these days - I now do mostly immigration, and I've not been in a Mags Court for ages. I'm prosecuting a trial starting tomorrow, but that's the first criminal trial I've done for a while, and is immigration-related crime.

Very sensible I think - from what I can gather there's no (well less) money in crime these days - there's certainly less criminal firms locally now, and alot less work to go around.

Jxx

neverdespairgirl

In fact, I ended up not prosecuting it, as there was a last-minute plea. To drag the matter back on topic, I guess there were 12 irritated people, as we were doing jury selection.