Juries

Home Office circulars

HOC 23/98: Increases in financial loss allowances for jurors and ordinary witnesses, in fees for professional witnesses in coroners' courts, and in fees for coroners' post-mortems

HOC 56/99: Increases in financial loss allowance for jurors and ordinary witnesses, in fees for professional witnesses in Coroners' Courts, and in fees for coroners' post-mortems

Other documents

Jurors Virtual Walkthrough (This link will take you out of the Home Office website and you will be taken to the CJS Online website.)

Being a juror, you would have been chosen at random from the electoral roll to serve on a jury - your job is to decide the outcome of a trial. This interactive virtual tour has been developed to provide information about the Criminal Justice System process as it relates to jury service.

The opportunity to be on Jury Service and means participation in the legal system. A juror would attend a Crown Court, and be part of a criminal case involving theft, burglary, and drugs offences for example. Jurors also try cases involving murder and rape, but these cases are less common. Alternatively jurors might be needed to serve in a civil case, such as libel, in a county court. though this does not happen often.

The jury of twelve people will be a cross-section of our society and will be asked to take an unbiased approach to the case to try to ensure that a fair trial takes place. Your summons tells you that you are legally required to serve on a jury. Please don't be worried by this - once most people get over the initial concern, they find jury service interesting and rewarding.

Juries in serious fraud trials: a consultation document (html version)

Juries in serious fraud trials: a consultation document (pdf version 194kb)