It is now reported to have been accepted as a valid reason for jury service excusal.

For the moment the excusal is for a period of one week only, subject to any further requests.

Ms Findlay applied to have her excusal placed before a judge.

If your excusal is granted, you will still be able to do jury duty and go away on your business trip.

If you continue to suffer financial loss, perhaps you should consider applying for an excusal on that basis.

An excusal or dismissal means that the hound may not run that course again.

Only you can apply for excusal.

The Scots have recently removed the upper age limit on jury service, although those called up who are over 70 have a "right of excusal".

Seeking excusal from military service due to health reasons - this would be considered evasion if the purported health issue was feigned or overstated.

Most people seeking an excusal fill out the application form politely but Erik Slye from Gallatin County, Montana, took a different approach.

If you are not excused by the Deputy Sheriff, you can still apply for an excusal in person by asking the Judge when you first attend court.

No more can be said than that each application for excusal will have to be judged on its merits, and must depend on its own particular facts and circumstances.

Bottoms claims that school chiefs John and Dawn Taylor 'gave British employees greater allowances for time off, raises, excusal from student supervisory duties and subsidized lunches.'

Jurors will be allowed to defer jury service to a date not more than 12 months in the future, so that excusal from jury service can be provided much more sparingly.

Most of the exclusions or scope for excusal from jury service deprive juries of the experience and skills of a wide range of professional and otherwise successful and busy people.

Instead, those who are over 70 have a "right of excusal," so that if they are infirm or feel a long trial is beyond them, they can turn down a summons without facing any penalty.

The Majority asserted that violations of any conditions of Mr Kenyatta's excusal may result in revocation of the partially granted request, and/or the issuance of an arrest warrant, where appropriate.

Random selection - to the extent that it has ever existed, given our history of restricted qualification for and exclusions and rights of excusal from jury service - is not to be equated with democracy.

After a citizen applies for excusal from service, each chief district court judge shall receive, hear, and pass on applications for excuses from jury duty prior to the date on which the jury session convenes.

The five-judge appeals panel acknowledged that trial judges have the power to excuse a defendant, but "interpreted the scope of its discretion too broadly" in giving Ruto what amounted to "a blanket excusal" from his trial, Sang said.

Citizens must, in general, all serve on a jury if required but one of the exceptions, recognised in guidance issued under the Juries Act 1974 is that excusal can be granted to people whose “ideology or beliefs are incompatible with jury service”.

Mr Kenyatta's excusal is "strictly granted to accommodate the demanding functions of his office as president of Kenya, and not merely to gratify the dignity of his own occupation of that office," said the ICC.

"We are ready to proceed with the retrial as quickly as possible, just as we said when we urged the defendants not to move for excusal of the jurors in the last trial," said John Markham, an Assistant United States Attorney.

In its ruling on Friday, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court said the trial judges had been too lenient with Mr. Ruto and had provided him with a "blanket excusal," making "his absence the general rule and his presence an exception."