CHILD’S LIFE.
JUDGE SUGGESTS VALUE SCALE. LONDON, May 13. Tim “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 hare been. awarded £IOOO but £llsO, that a regular scale of charges might be drawn up, relieving judges of the iesponsibility of making a decision of the rightness of which there is 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 ho considers such criticism of a jury’s award “contrary to the spirit of normal and fair Court procedure.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 7
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