A judge at the court today warned jurors that they will not be sitting next Tuesday as several days of walkouts begin along with a refusal to take on new cases.
More than 50,000 union members have walked out over demands for a 11 per cent pay rise as millions battled into work, were forced to work from home or unable to earn money at all this week.
Today s strikes saw an extremely limited service running on the tracks across the country, with city workers fearing they would become stuck in London.
The biggest rail strike in a generation in Britain will see only around half of the network open and for just an 11-hour period on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week.
Some are celebrating being to work from home for the week - and a tacit admission by some that they will be spending more time sunbathing than getting on with their jobs in the coming days.