Is this the same regardless of your role in the trial? Over here (Finland), if you are witness, you are compensated (meagerly, not always reasonable). If you

Is this the same regardless of your role in the trial? Over here (Finland), if you are witness, you are compensated (meagerly, not always reasonable). If you are the accused, you pay for your own travel - so the professional criminal class just skips the trial, thereby causing lot of unnecessary hassle to witnesses and injured parties. Then a new trial date is set, and on the nth try the police might pick up the accused, and bring him or her to trial (at no cost), then to be released on a conditional discharge.