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Juries Act 1974

SCHEDULES

Sections 1 and 9.

SCHEDULE 1
Ineligibility and Disqualification for, and Excusal from, Jury Service

Part I
Persons Ineligible

Group A
The Judiciary

Holders of high judicial office within the meaning of the 1876 c. 59.Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

Circuit judges and Recorders.

Masters of the Supreme Court.

Registrars and assistant registrars of any court.

Metropolitan and other stipendiary magistrates.

Justices of the peace.

The Chairman or President, the Vice-Chairman or Vice-President, and the registrar and assistant registrar of any Tribunal.

A person who has at any time been a person falling within any description specified above in this Group.

Group B
Others concerned with administration of justice

Barristers and solicitors, whether or not in actual practice as such.

Solicitors’ articled clerks.

Barristers’ clerks and their assistants.

Legal executives in the employment of solicitors.

The Director of Public Prosecutions and members of his staff.

Officers employed under the Lord Chancellor and concerned wholly or mainly with the day-to-day administration of the legal system or any part of it.

Officers and staff of any court, if their work is wholly or mainly concerned with the day-to-day administration of the court.

Coroners, deputy coroners and assistant coroners.

Justices’ clerks and their assistants.

Clerks and other officers appointed under section 15 of the 1964 c. 42.Administration of Justice Act 1964 (Inner London magistrates courts administration).

Active Elder Brethren of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

A shorthandwriter in any court.