WOMEN JURORS.
OPINIONS IN CONFLICT. MARSHALL HALL'S DISSATISFACTION. (Per Press Association Copyright.) LONDON, January 28. Four day's divorce proceedings be- i fore a mixed jury culminated m a disagreement for a second time. Sir E. Marshall-Hall, K.C., who was appearing for the wife, the respondent, remarked: "This is my first case before a mixed jury. I hope 1 may never have another." . The foreman stated that ho question had arisen as between men. and women" jurors. Two married jurywomen described listening to letters connected with the case as a terrible ordeal. Two unmarried jurywomen started that the duties should be confined to married women above a certain age. Miss Barker, a juror, who during the war was superintendent of women munition workers at Woolwich, and is now prominent m connection with the women's unemployment movement, considers that women should sit on any case. She says: "It is no use talking of unpleasant details, or of making distinctions between married and unmarried women."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9431, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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