SENSITIVE JURY WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 5

SENSITIVE JURY WOMEN.

DIVORCE COURT DETAILS. MWYER OK •MTXT.T) JXTRIES. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 28. A four days' divorce trial before a mixed jury culminated in a disagreement for the second time. Mr. Marshall Hall, who was appearing for tlie wife (the respondent), remarked: "This is my first case before 11 mixetf Jury, and I hope 1 will never have another." The foreman stated that no question had arisen as between the men and women jurors. Two married jurywomen described listening to the letters connected with the case as a "terrible ordeal." Two unmarried women stated that the duties of jurywomen should be confined to married women above a certain age. Miss Barker, one of the jurors, who during the war superintended the women munitioners at WoohvFch, and is now a prominent figure in the women's unemployment movement, said she considered that women should sit on any case. There was no use talking about unpleasant details, nor making any distinctions between married and unmarried womeai (A. and N.Z. Cable.).