TRIAL BY JURY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

TRIAL BY JURY

01,1) I OKAS AXO XRW. There luis been much disillusion as to (lie fnnct ions mid value of juries since our law look its present shape (writes (lie London Times editorial''.). Few would speak of them in the diiUerinj;- linijjuaji'e that was once habilual. Evervoiie knows that when and wliere there is a choice between trial t>\ a jmljie and trial by a iurv a suitor whose ease lias ,10 merits will iioncrallv elioose tinlatter. So manv are the defects to-day tlmi. if I lie "rent Krskine were alive lie miu'lit elioose as ilie motto for Ins anus not "Trial liv '.lurv." but "Trial hy .Tud<re." We liave lived to see file fhancen' Court, in wbieli juries are unknown. lieeome associated witli certainf\ and cxnedition: and tlie Kind's TVnch. in which tliev are common, tin 1 subject of complaints of delav. imcertainiv and expense. Whatever the cause, there is much disillusion to-day as to the \alue of a jury.