Justice committee  It's the Juries Act 2000 (Vic), so it's a Victorian legislation.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  Do you mean the actual paying of jurors to be at court?

Justice committee  We pay a whopping $40 a day.

Justice committee  I need to make one clarification. In Australia, there is a Fair Work Act. It states in section 111 that the employer has an obligation to make up the pay of a juror. That act says that this obligation ends after 10 days, but the next section of that act says if a state law is “mo

Justice committee  Well, it's not so much that the 10-day rule says that the employer.... The legislation in Victoria, in subsection 52(2), says: Despite any inconsistent term in a contract of employment, an employee who has been summoned for jury service and who has attended court, whether or no

Justice committee  The answer to the second question is no, and the answer to the first is less than $10,000 a year. We are paying the cost of the hourly rate of a counsellor, which is around $170 an hour, and for some of the promotional collateral such as the pamphlets and those sorts of things. T

Justice committee  Yes, I wish you hadn't said “write books”, because when I speak to jurors, students, or anybody else, the first thing I say to them is that if their understanding of the jury system in Victoria is based on American TV, they have to get that out of their head. I always say, yes, t

Justice committee  I can, as long as we remember there are 14 districts. For instance, I'm sitting in Melbourne, in a purpose-built building that was commissioned in 2002, and it is a perfect environment for jurors. As you suggest, they have a separate entrance. There's a lounge. They're given secu

Justice committee  We carefully crafted our communications in consultation with the counselling service. We started from a position that we start with in all areas of jury service. We say to citizens this is the last type of conscription available to the state. You didn't choose to be a juror. You

Justice committee  I'm not too sure how to answer it in that I'm surprised as well by the low numbers. In fact, sometimes I wish that all 6,600 jurors accessed a juror support program after jury service. I think the answer lies in something that both Mr. Trudell and Ms. Donaldson said. We do what

Justice committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for the invitation to contribute to this committee's work. I grew up on the West Island of Montreal at a time when anglophones weren't required to be fluent in both of Canada's official languages. I moved to Melbourne shortly after the Montreal Cana