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For sure. Aside from worrying about retaliation, the actual procedure and comings and goings around the courts was indeed very interesting. I was surprised that essentially anyone can just walk into any courtroom and watch the proceedings. I'd be interested to go and sit in on an...

Thanks for the number & address cimbom Just got off the phone to a very helpful lady at the OPP. She explained that the OPP and Magistrates Court are completely seperate but she did say that there is a capped limit for both on claims for wages expenses. She couldn't confirm the magistrates...

Nope....it doesn't state the cap's, this is one of the pages I have been referring to. It states:- "If you are claiming lost wages your employer will also need to sign your form or you will need to sign a statutory declaration stating that you have lost wages as a result of having to attend...

The only reason I made the original post was to try and find out if someone knew where the actual rates/caps/allowances were published so that I could check whether I have been reimbursed properly. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, or just or unjust, but everything I have read to date...

There's actually very little info on the summons, it's a one page sheet stapled to a copy of my statement. The detective in charge told me on the phone that the defense had summoned ALL witnesses. The summons itself does not say who summoned me, it just says it was issued by xxx Registrar...

Found that too, which is why I thought my wages would be paid, but I can't find anything that sets out the maximum rates that those wages are paid back at. All I am told from the Magistrates cashier is that there is a "daily allowance", ($81).

I'm not (yet) a successful investor, a days lost wages is fairly significant for me. I was told that I would potentially have to be available for two weeks. If that was the case, two weeks of daily allowances with the balance of a months wage would only just cover my mortgage, how would my other...

No idea. Hence looking for the legislation to read up on it. From the snippets I could find, I did read that you can claim expenses for lost wages "if" your employer hasn't paid you. Didn't see anywhere that says your employer should pay you, (mine won't by the way).

...didn't think refusing to give evidence when summonsed would even be an option?

I hear you. I'll certainly think twice before I stick my head out of the trenches again. I heard shouting and a couple of loud bangs in the middle of the night one night, turns out they may have been the gunshots that killed a guy over the road from my house. I called Crime Stoppers as I...

Hi all,, Any Victorian legal experts n here? I was called up to Magistrates Court last moth as a witness, (long story, heard something in the night - turned out it was something nasty and I got called up to state the time I head the noise). Anyway, from what I read on the internet, it...