VALUE OF A LIFE
CRITICISM OF A JUDGE DAMAGES FOR FATALITY United Pres* Assn.—Elec. Tel. Co;. lgdt LONDON, May 26 The Spectator urges, as a result of the remark of Mr Justice Charles in the High Court that the father of a child killed by a car should not have been awarded £IOOO but £l5O, that a regular scale of charges might be drawn up, relieving judges of the responsibility of making a decision of the rightness of which there no rational criterion. Mr T. Kennedy (Labour) will ask the House of Commons to record its strong disapproval of the statement by Mr Justice Charles. Mr Kennedy says that he considers such criticism of a jury’s award “ contrary to tlie spirit of normal and fair Court procedure.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20509, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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127VALUE OF A LIFE Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20509, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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