End doctors exemption from jury service, white paper recommends

The latest white paper on criminal justice could mean that doctors and medical students in the United Kingdom are no longer automatically excused from being summoned for jury service.

The report proposes to abolish the list of those exempt and excused. Currently, this list includes lawyers, solicitors, barristers, vets, clergy, pharmacists, forensic science laboratory workers, doctors, dentists, and nurses and midwives in private practices. In future, they would be expected to do jury service if summoned, unless they had a good reason.

One area identified as being particularly difficult is that …