Judge excused from jury service because he was presiding over case

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Speaking at Salisbury Crown Court, the senior circuit judge said that even though he replied to the summons stating that he was the judge in the pending trial, his reason was rejected and he had to contact the Jury Central Summoning Bureau directly. “I told the Jury Central Summoning Bureau that I thought I would be inappropriate seeing I happened to be the judge and knew all the papers. “I had to phone them up and they realised it was a mistake.” The Hard Stop on cinema on July 15 Judge Cutler, who served as the coroner for the inquest of Mark Duggan who was shot by police in August 2011, sparking riots across London, and who has also served as president of the Council of Circuit Judges, said he would have been happy to have served as a juror if it had been appropriate. He said: “I would have liked to have done the jury service to see what it was like and whether I would have liked the judge.” A guide to jury summons issued by the Department of Justice states: “The normal expectation is that everyone summoned for jury service will serve at the time for which they are summoned.