Jury Service...

I would say the wedding is a perfect reason to be exempt.

Bear in mind you can only postpone a finite number of times - if he postpones now he will be called again at some point.

Edited to add - I did Jury Service almost 10 years ago and loved it, although the waiting around to be called for a jury was very dull.

This might help http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/jury_service/faqs.htm

And this http://juror.cjsonline.gov.uk/can-i-choose-not-to-serve/postponing-or-being-excused/

When my friend was called up for jury duty the boss wrote a letter saying that she could not be spared from the office and that there wasn't enough time for him to find cover etc etc so you could try that tact....

I did jury service a few years ago, and while it was annoying to receive the summons (and realise that, unlike last time, I couldn't get out of it), the actual process was surprisingly fascinating.

As far as I remember, the pay issue was very straightforward, but I was on a basic salary at the time so there was no quibbling about what I might have earned over the period. I can readily appreciate how it might be rather more complicated if you're on a system like basic plus commission.

That said, don't whatever you do be like the guy who submitted a £10,000 invoice to the court for "loss of earnings" - when the judge finished laughing, he not only refused to pay but jailed the bloke for seven days for contempt of court!

So... I assume you earn more than £30 a day? Did they pay it all back you?

I do (and did) earn more than £30 a day, and I don't remember anything unusual about my payslips round then - and I suspect I'd have noticed!

I honestly can't remember exactly what I had to do - I think I just had to give them the contact details for my employers' wages office, and the court sorted everything out with them. Since I work in an organisation that employs 400 people, they obviously had standard procedures for this, which is presumably why it was so seamless that I didn't really notice anything (or, unhelpfully, remember any of the fine details!).

My mum was called for jury service about 2 years ago whilst her and my dad were running their own business. It was a bed and breakfast and my mum was the cook so she couldn't leave it, and dad had his own job to go off to.

Dad wrote a letter saying that she wouldn't be able to go and stated the reasons for which she would be unable to go and it was accepted. She's not been called to go since.

I did Jury service a couple of years ago and my work paid me and claimed from the govt, a bit like maternity pay. I didn't notice any difference in my salary. You also get to claim the £30 expenses for travel costs etc, as long as you use the cheapest form of travel and get it approved beforehand.

Yes, sorry - I should have mentioned that: I went by train from home (clearly the easiest method, so no argument) and had to submit my tickets at the end. If I remember rightly, reimbursement was pretty much by return.

The crucial thing is that I wasn't out of pocket in any way - I had to pay for lunch, but no more than I'd have had to pay on a normal working day, so I couldn't really complain about that.

I went a couple of years ago now...my work paid me as normal, and claimed back from the courts.

Also, you get 5 quid a day towards food which was quite good on a card thing. If you don't spend it you get that back at the end, or anything left on it.

Travel is also paid like people say.

With exemption, they do usually accept it tbh, I was almost on the verge of that as someone handed their notice into our team and left around the time I was due to go. In the end they had to let me go as the court said I would have to appear next time which was slap bang just after our wedding, and I had booked time off.