JURY SYSTEM
FAILURE IN AUSTRIA
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Alarch 10.
A Vienna correspondent reports that
Government intends replacing the jury system with mixed Senates, composed of three professional and six lay judges or assessors. An Enabling Bill will be introduced and is not likely to be opposed, as jury trials after G 1 yours
(st,, have been found altogether de-
iciont. Conservatives ascribe failure *o iost-war demoralisation and others atribute the recent erratic jury verdict .> n inurdei- and defamation trials to the litrusioti of politics into the court-
•ooin and the practice of drawing further from every stratum of society whatever their character. The Bill
treats press misdemeanours and political offences as crimes triable by the new tribunals and punishable with ten
years’ imprisonment
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1929, Page 5
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