TRIAL BY PEERS.
OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS RESOLUTION BY THE HOUSE. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, February 4. The House of Lords by 45 votes to 24 decided that the system of trial of peers by peers had outlived its usefulness. Baron Sankey, who foreshadowed a Bill, said that a noble lord who was chairman of a company might swindle a gullible public to the extent of hundreds of thousands of pounds, which might he misdemeanour for which, he would be tried at Old Bailey oi the Assizes, but if the same noble lord stole a silver matchbox worth 50 shillings it would be a felony lor which he must be tried by his peers. The trial of de Clifford cost £7OO compared probably with £35 had it been held at Old Bailey.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 5
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132TRIAL BY PEERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 5
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