ACCIDENT CASES
Road Patrols As Expert
Witnesses N.I.M.U. DOES NOT APPROVE “Our association nas noticed a tendency on the part of some members of the legal profession to call on road patrols to give opinions us to the cause of accidents,” said the chairman, Mr. J. 11. Edmundson (Hawke’s Bay), at the half-yearly meeting of the North Island Motor Union in Wellington yesterday. “This puts the patrol almost in the position of an expert witness. Such an attempt was made in a case in Hawke’s Bay. We think the patrols should keep clear of that sort of thing. If they .have been witnesses of an accident, that is a different matter, but for them to take the place of expert witnesses without the approval of their associations is quite wrong and we have instructed our patrols accordingly. Mr. N. F. -Little (Taranaki) : All associations will support that. If they have any trouble, their proper course is to approach the Law Society in their district.
Mr. E. A. Batt (Wellington) : Wellington has all the virtues you require. If the patrols are subpoenaed we can’t take'any action, but otherwise they are absolutely prohibited from doing what you suggest is being done.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 10
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199ACCIDENT CASES Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 10
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