Yeah. Been summoned AGAIN to go as part of civic duty to attend.
Don't want to. Anyone want to share there experiences ?

First time: I went through the filtering process and right when the trial was about to begin, the judge realized he had the wrong paper-work and dismissed us; I was payed for 2 hours.
Second time: I get the mail summoning me, but then I get another saying the lock-down has canceled it and I'll be summoned again *eventually*.

Sounds pretty cool tbh, do you get to sentence people to death?

I did it once. The court case was just some bogan trash who assaulted his girlfriend.

Never done it. Pretty sure I'm on the exempt list, since my dad's business used to have the plumbing contract for a local prison. Anyone that works in a prison or related to such a person can choose to be exempt and once exempt I doubt they ever recheck to see if situations have changed.

Australia does not have the death penalty. Furthermore a jury does not sentence, that is the job of the judge ;)

Got a summons on several occasions, but each time I was told I was on standby and to call in the day of, then told each time I didn't need to come in and was good for another year. Last time I actually ended up needing to serve on a jury- it was a wrongful death civil suit involving a multi-car traffic accident, so a bit more complex than most criminal trials, especially with regards to the judgement we had to render (multiple questions to apportion fault, then determination of damages). Ended up taking about two weeks total. I haven't received another summons since then, and hopefully won't receive any until the current pandemic is past.

Only had the "pleasure" to do so once a few years ago for a mind-numbingly boring customer-vs-car-insurance-company suit that lasted about 2 weeks.

Also, just because you've been summoned doesn't automatically mean you'll be on a jury since most people from the jury pool are only there for the day of jury selection.

Glad we dont have that system here in hungary.
Who want some random strangers to decide these cases.
Especially as my view of an average persons' ability to be objective is rather low.
Oh look that girl looks cute ,surely not guilty....

And this seems very costly, so much paperwork etc..

I was summoned, once, but had to move soon. Didn't know if I was staying in the same county or not, so they removed me from the list.

I don't even know what "civic duty" is. (EDIT: Well, now I think I know, after reading further messages.)

First I thought it is where, once in a while, you are summoned to army training after your actual compulsory military service, but then I figured "does Australia even have conscription like Finland does? Probably not.".

We call that "civic duty" as "kertausharjoitukset" ("repeat rehearsal") here; I haven't been summoned to them even once even though I was a second lieutenant in the army, but it was in coastal artillery groups that I don't think exist anymore (quite soon after my service it was replaced with missiles and shit, I recall they were looking for joystick gamers who are good at manually targetting stuff with a joystick).

So by the title, does it mean the American system where common people are "asked" (compulsory) to join a jury in some court case? I've only seen that in some American movies, I don't think we have that here.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313542/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_42

Googling for civic duty:

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Duty_(film]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Duty_(film[/url])

What is that movie about anyway?

Done it once. Was to do with a kidnapping and assualt. Was interesting to see what went on in an actual court case.

Lasted a week and the group involved where found guilty.

Thankfully, I've gotten away with never having to do it but if I am ever called for it, I plan to respectfully reject it. I do not believe in passing judgement on other humans, particularly not within a court of law.

what? that makes no sense, then how can you enforce the laws?

I'm speaking on a personal level. I also don't entirely agree with the way our jury system works here in the US, as it tries to force people who disagree with judging others on a personal level into doing just that.