Penalties for employers that don’t grant leave can include fines of $10,000, jail for 3 months
Nearly 300 prospective jurors did not show up when summoned for the Jordan Manners murder trial in Toronto in March. (Manners was a Toronto high school student shot at school in 2007.) Almost 50 failed to appear at a Brampton, Ont., murder trial in February. And between 11 per cent and 21 per cent of prospective jurors have avoided appearing for duty in 42 different Brampton trials between September 2010 and January 2011, according to findings by Justice Casey Hill.
