What is the test for a jury to be called?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Re s. 39 Juries Act Contempt Inquiry, 2011 ONSC 1105 (CanLII):
Accordingly, “[p]ersons summoned to serve on a jury panel have little choice but to obey the summons”: Lee v. Attorney General of Ontario and Attorney General of Quebec (1989), 1989 CanLII 21 (SCC), 52 C.C.C. (3d) 289 (S.C.C.), at para. 4.
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