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EVIDENCE OF JURIES IN MOTOR COLLISION CASES
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. A suggestion that a Judge and two assessors should try civil actions in which negligent driving of motor vehicles is imputed was made by the Ghief Justice in the Supreme Court to-day. His Honour drew the attention of the Grand Jury to the fact that' cases had occurred where one jury (on a criminal charge) had declared by its verdict that accused was not guilty of negligence, while a second jury (in a civil action) had declared that he was. Both verdicts, said His Honour, could not be right. His Honour drew attention to the large percentage of cases in which motor accidents figured. There were no fewer than nine separate cases at the sessions, in which two persons j had suffered hodily injury and seven j had met their deaths, and this was | typical of what . was occurring in varying degrees throughout the Do~ minion.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 303, 17 August 1932, Page 5
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