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APPENDIX D: PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITIES FOR JUROR COMPENSATION

British Columbia

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $20 per day for the first 10 days of the trial;
  • $60 per day for the 11th to the 49th day of the trial;
  • $100 per day for the 50th and each succeeding day of the trial.

Compensation for Care

Jurors are entitled to up to $50 per day per child for child care costs to attend a sitting or trial if:

  • a receipt is provided to the sheriff; and
  • the child care was arranged solely to attend a sitting or trial and would not otherwise have been provided.

Compensation for Meals

n/a (Jurors are responsible for all meals, except when the jury is sequestered.)

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to the following allowances (to travel to and from the courthouse to attend a sitting or trial):

  • parking costs: $20 per day (if receipt is provided to the sheriff);
  • use of private vehicle by the juror: $0.50 per kilometre for travel costs in excess of 32 km per day;
  • taxi costs: up to $15 per day (if receipt is provided to the sheriff);
  • public transportation: up to $10 per day.

Alberta

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $50 per day or part of day.

Compensation for Care

According to the testimony of Ms. Shauna Jobagy, Deputy Clerk of the Court, Court of Queen’s Bench, Alberta Juror Support Program, babysitting and day care are covered if supported by a receipt.

Compensation for Meals

Jurors are entitled to the following allowances:

  • reasonable meal expenses actually incurred (if the juror is not resident in the vicinity of the place of trial or proceedings or if the juror is resident in the vicinity of the place of trial or proceedings but is required to go to a restaurant for meals);
  • if the claim is not supported by receipts or other proof, it shall be paid in accordance with the Public Service Subsistence, Travel and Moving Expenses Regulation:
    • breakfast: $9.20;
    • lunch: $11.60;
    • dinner: $20.75.

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to the following allowances:

  • when travelling by railway, bus or other public carrier: the actual fare paid in going to or returning from the place of trial or proceedings;
  • when travelling by private automobile: $0.505 per kilometre.

Manitoba

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • no fee for the first 10 days of trial;
  • $30 per day or part of day after the tenth day of trial;
  • where a trial is of unusual length, or where, in the opinion of the presiding judge, a juror has suffered undue hardship by reason of the juror’s attendance at court, the presiding judge may recommend to the sheriff that additional fees (the additional fee cannot exceed $10 for each day in excess of 10 days) be paid to a juror.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

Jurors are entitled to:

  • reasonable expenses necessarily incurred for meals. The claim for meals has to be supported by receipts or proof of expenses incurred. If not, expenses are paid in accordance with the rates provided for in the Travel and Related Expenses (s. 25 of the General Manual of Administration).

Compensation for Travel

If the juror’s usual residence or place of business is not within the limits of the city or town in which court is held is, he or she is entitled to be reimbursed for travel expenses:

  • for public carrier: the actual necessary and reasonable return fare;
  • for privately owned vehicle: rates allowed from time to time in the General Manual of Administration for privately owned automobiles.

Saskatchewan

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $80 per day or part of a day (unless the person is receiving income from his or her employer while serving as a juror).

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

Jurors are entitled to:

  • their meal expenses that the sheriff considers reasonable.

Compensation for Travel

A juror is entitled to receive a payment for his or her travel expenses that the sheriff considers reasonable:

  • when travelling by a private vehicle, $0.4255 per kilometre (North of the 54th Parallel: $0.4582);
  • the actual parking expenses;
  • when jurors use public transportation, at the rate established for travel expenses incurred by members of the public service when using public transportation.

Ontario

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • no fee for the first 10 days of trial;
  • $40 per day of service after the 10th day of service and up to the 49th day of service;
  • $100 per day of service after the 49th day of service.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

A juror is entitled to a travel allowance (payable from the day on which the trial commences) only if his or her usual place of residence is not in the city or town where the trial is held:

  • when travelling by private automobile:
    • $0.305 per kilometre in northern Ontario;
    • $0.30 per kilometre in southern Ontario;
  • when travelling by other mode of transport than by private automobile:
    • the actual necessary and reasonable amount paid for travel.

Quebec

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $103 per day or part of day;
  • $160 as of the 57th day of jury selection;
  • an additional $52 where there are evening hearings or deliberations (the indemnity is fixed at $103 where the deliberations continue until the following day);
  • if hearings, deliberations or confinement to premises falls on a holiday, a Saturday, 26 December or 2 January, jurors are entitled to an additional $103 (or $160 as of the 52nd day following jury selection).

Compensation for Care

Jurors are entitled, on order of a judge, to an allowance for the care of children or other dependents (payable on a weekly basis):

  • $131 (for one person);
  • $172 (for two persons);
  • $220 (for three persons);
  • $260 (for four or more persons).

Compensation for Meals

Jurors are entitled to an allowance of $46.25 per complete day. Meal allowances are as follows:

  • breakfast: $10.40;
  • lunch: $14.30;
  • dinner: $21.55.

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to:

  • when travelling by public transport, the amount paid for travel;
  • when travelling by private vehicle (the minimum amount paid for the use of the private vehicle cannot be under $10.75):
    • $0.430 per kilometre for the first 8,000 kilometres;
    • $0.380 per kilometre after 8,000 kilometres;
    • parking costs.

New Brunswick

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to the following fees:

  • if a trial lasts less than 10 sitting days:
    • $20 per one half-day;
    • $40 for a full day;
  • if a trial lasts 10 days or more sitting days:
    • for attendance before the tenth day of trial:
      • - $20 per one half-day;
      • - $40 for a full day;
    • for attendance on or after the tenth day of the trial:
      • - $40 per one half-day;
      • - $80 for a full day.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

A juror shall be paid compensation for meals if the juror is not entitled to reimbursement for meals from any other source and his or her attendance has not concluded before twelve o’clock or five o’clock in the afternoon:

  • breakfast: $7.50;
  • lunch: $10.50;
  • dinner: $19.50.

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to a travel allowance for each day of attendance for every kilometre that they necessarily travel for one round trip from their residence to the Court or other place for the hearing of a proceeding:

  • for each of the first 8,000 kilometres: $0.41 per kilometre;
  • for each of the next 8,000 kilometres: $0.38 per kilometre.

Nova Scotia

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $40 per day.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $0.20 per kilometre in travelling to and from the place of the trial from the juror’s residence within the jury district.

Prince Edward Island

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $25 per one-half day.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to the following allowances:

  • within city or town limits: $6;
  • within province: $0.24 per kilometre

Newfoundland and Labrador

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Employers have the legal obligation to continue to pay the same wages and benefits to jurors in their absence.

Compensation for Care

Except where such expenses would ordinarily be incurred by the juror, where a juror ordinarily has the care of a child or children under the age of 12 or the care of an aged, infirm or mentally incompetent person, the juror is entitled to, upon production of receipts:

  • the amount of expenses actually incurred in respect of that care; or
  • the prevailing minimum wage rate of the province multiplied by the number of hours of jury service.

However, the sheriff may, in certain circumstances, authorize the payment to the juror of a higher amount that the sheriff considers just.

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

A juror may be paid reasonable travel expenses for:

  • the fare paid in travelling to and from the place of the trial from the juror’s home;
  • mileage at the rate payable to a person employed as a public servant by the province travelling on government business (rates vary monthly [i.e., 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017: $0.3619 per kilometre], see rates.)

Yukon

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $80 per day.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

Jurors are entitled to:

  • up to $25 per day if the juror resides 50 kilometres or more from the courthouse where the trial is held.

Compensation for Travel

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $0.10 per kilometre for the use of their personal vehicle if they reside at least 50 kilometres from the courthouse where the trial is held.

Northwest Territories

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $80 per day.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

n/a

Nunavut

Legislative Authorities

Fees in General

Jurors are entitled to:

  • $100 per day for the first five days of trial;
  • $150 per day for the sixth and subsequent days of trial.

Compensation for Care

n/a

Compensation for Meals

n/a

Compensation for Travel

n/a