Jury duty: The cat will miss you is not a good excuse

By Julie Power
October 22 2017 - 10:37am

An increase in longer trials caused a 75 per cent rise last year in the number of fines for people who tried to get out of jury duty without a good reason, including those who claimed the planets weren't aligned and an allergy to airconditioning.

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