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Manitoba is introducing legislation to increase compensation for those serving as jurors.
Justice Minister Cameron Friesen says Bill 46 would also modernize the reasons for an exemption from jury duty.
“Our government continues to modernize Manitoba’s courts, to take advantage of technologies, provide better services and decrease wait times for access. This includes addressing fees that have not been updated in years,” says Friesen in a release announcing the lgelislation.
“Current juror fees have become a barrier, and these changes will increase fairness for jurors and acknowledge their investment of time.”
Jurors in Manitoba currently get $30 per day beginning on the 11th day of a trial.
Bill seeks to transfer legal aid fee-setting authority
LEGAL Aid Manitoba lawyers may be getting a raise.
On Thursday, the Progressive Conservative government revealed the contents of Bill 50 (Legal Aid Manitoba Amendment Act) it introduced in November. It seeks to transfer the authority for setting fees for private lawyers from the government to legal aid’s management council. This bill has been a long time coming, said Gerri Wiebe, president of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association of Manitoba.
Legal Aid provides free or affordable legal services to low-income Manitobans using a mixed model, with half of the cases handled by staff lawyers and half handled by private bar lawyers paid a fee, last adjusted in 2008, when the base was set at $80 an hour.