University Students and Jury Duty

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Have any of your teenagers at University served on Jury Duty ?

How did they catch up on their course work?
Are they re-imbursed ? (Student isn't earning , would need to pay travel to get there)

When you consider the course fees now are £9,250 a year , it's a fair chunk to lose for that alone .

Is there an option to defer on the grounds of loss of Learning Time ?

TIA

When I was at university (about 6 years ago or so), I was able to defer.

I think I brought the form into the office of my department, and they gave me a letter which I sent back along with the completed form.

Ok, that's good news

Were you put back on the waitlist ?
(DH and I have never been called . DS has just started University so not an ideal time for him)

I'm sure he'd be delighted to do his Civil Duty at another time though.

I got my tutor to sign a form and took it to the court to defer jury duty. They were fine with it.

I was called in what would have been the middle of my finals. The tutor wrote a letter and I was let off. (It was in my uni town and I wasn't staying there after I'd finished the exams)

I have no idea, 70! I never heard another thing about it.

I had actually forgotten all about it until my dad got his jury notice through the post a couple of weeks ago!

One of mine got jury duty - we gave allowances (and extended them, as the trial was prolonged beyond what was expected). I think any university would by sympathetic and helpful if a student chose not to defer.

I got asked to do it yearssssss ago, I think the request came with a form to complete to say why you couldn't attend. At the time I had graduated & was job hunting so had interviews etc to attend. I sent that explanation of, was excused & haven't been asked again, it's got to have been 10 years now (I was a mature student).