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Thanks for the input all.
RV:I haven't tried legal advice. I think I'll see what they have to say during the introduction session which takes place on the first day. Self-employed jurers are required to provide proof of self-employment from HMRC but as far as I can tell there is no mechanism in place to establish loss of earnings, other than getting your accountant to knock something together - the cost of which they specifically exclude :- (
I know where you're coming from as regards to the logo incorporating the contact number and that may well influence which contact channel the prospective client chooses. I designed it deliberately so that the whole logo and number would always be visible even on small smartphones held in portrait aspect when I recoded my site to be mobile-friendly.
I make quite a lot of use of Adwords and the monthly stats from that can be just about the purest indicators of what new clients are actually using i.e. the stats are not polluted by visitors from other sources, existing clients etc. For June my clicks by device type were 40% desktop, 31% mobile, and 29% tablet. So mobile matters and small mobile screens are surprisingly common. Nearly everyone calling calls from their mobile.
I have a lot of content on my Contact Page to differentiate myself from those competitors who commonly give nothing other than a mobile number and a rough geographical location. It seems to be well-received. It serves to some extent as an "about" page would but without the usual syrupy garbage. The email link is clickable to launch the visitors default email client. I dislike contact forms firstly because they seemed to have endless non-functioning issues in the days when DWF was active, and secondly because they can be awkward to use with mobiles.
I'll give it more consideration. I may just try a new answerphone message getting the "jury service" words out ultra-quick at the start to try and gain some sympathy.
TH: As ML alludes to the regulations are much harsher now than they once were. You are allowed to defer just once and only for a year so you risk postponing it from a bad time to an even worse time.
Some cases can be very long, obviously, but even for short ones they stack them up so you have to do several over your allotted time.
Does anyone use one of those phone answering services? That might work; just thought of it.
Pete
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