Jurors up to 75

People up to the age of 75 are to be eligible for jury service under new Ministry of Justice proposals. Currently, only people aged between 18 and 70 can sit as jurors. The changes will require primary legislation which will be brought forward early next year. About 178,000 people in England and Wales undertake jury service each year. The upper age limit was last changed in 1988, from 65 to 70. Criminal justice minister Damian Green said: “The right to be tried by your peers is, and remains, a cornerstone of the British Justice system laid down in the Magna Carta almost 800 years ago.”