TO ABOLISH JURIES
A PROPOSALJN AUSTRIA SYSTEM CALLED A FAILURE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Times Cable Reed. 12.4 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. The Vienna correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Government intends replacing the jury system with mixed Senates, composed of three professional and six lay judges or assessors. The Enabling Bill, to be introduced on March 19, is likely to be opposed. Jury trials, after a 61 years' test, have been found to be altogether deficient. Conservatives ascribe their failure to post-war demoralisation. Others attribute the recent erratic jury verdicts in murder and defamation trials to the intrusion of politics into the court room, and the practice of drawing jurors from every stratum of society, whatever their character. The Bill treats Press misdemeanours and political offences as crimes to be tried by the new tribunals and punishable by ten years’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 9
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142TO ABOLISH JURIES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 9
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