TRIAL BY PEERS.
MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. The opinion of the House of Lords will be tested to-day on a question which was much discussed during the recent trial of Lord d© Clifford on a charge of manslaughter arising out of a motor collision, heard, in accordance with ancient privilege, before the House of Lords. Baron Sankey will move: “That the system of trial of peers by peers has outlived its usefulness.’’—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 97, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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