Jury Summons

there is no guarentee you'll be chosen. each lawyer has a certain number of ppl he can say no to cos he doesnt like the look of them etc... you do get paid for it though so if DH is gonna get leave might be worth it for the extra money? i only got to the first stage where you walk up and they say whether they want you or not so i cant help much but there is alot of waiting round. the refund transport costs and stuff too

monikah did you get paid for the time you were there? It says $31 for 1/2 day.

I am not bothered if not chosen for any & DH will just go back to work so no probs there.

Eating in town won't help my diet any

I did it years ago. I got picked and the trial lasted for a week. Was really boring, but did get paid for it and transport. And on the last night we got to have dinner at the Hyatt since we were still deciding on a verdict. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I did it a couple of years ago and found it really interesting.

There were two trials, one lasted a couple of days and one went for 2 weeks. I got chosen for the 2 week one. I met some really nice people and I quite enjoyed it even though the trial was a bit mundane (benefit fraud).

Didn't find there was too much waiting around. They were pretty quick with processing people.

All in all I found it good and I just really wanted to do it to be part of a jury (and to get a couple of weeks off work because my boss was driving me up the wall! ) , but probably wouldn't do it again.