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Potential jurors do not have to attend a court building unless they are specifically requested to do so.
The helpline listed on your citation will inform you if you should expect a phone call. If this is the case, you must be available to answer a phone call but can continue to go about your day as usual.
You will only need to attend after a member of SCTS staff has called you to tell you that you have been selected at the ballot.
Jurors are selected from communities, this is done electronically using the information supplied from the electoral register. Selection for jury service is random. This means an individual may be selected on multiple occasions, with lengthy periods between citations, or not at all, or that several people from one employer are cited simultaneously.
It should be noted that, depending on circumstances, if you are excused from serving on a particular occasion, this may result in another citation being received within a relatively short timescale.
Balloting the jury is done in advance without the jurors being present. You should call the jury attendance update number on the day before your jury service as this will inform you if your name is due to be entered into a ballot.
On the day of the ballot you will receive a call from the court which will let you know whether you have been selected and provide you with information about the trial. Only the 15 jurors balloted to participate, plus a small number of substitutes, will attend for the trial.
Further information on the ballot is provided in About jury duty in Scotland.