"COMPENSATE ALL."
ROAD ACCIDENT CLAIMS
(By Telcgrnpli.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Thursday.
A suggestion that juries in road accident civil claims were influenced by the knowledge that the verdict would not fall on the nominal defendant but on the insurance pool was referred to by the Attorney-General, Mr. Mason, in replying to the "second reading debate on the Judicature Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives to-day. The Minister said he did not think the remedy in such cases was a special tribunal. In his opinion the real solution of the question was an alteration in the nature of the claim. There was no reason for a claim being based on the negligence of the man driving the car. If the driver were indemnified by tlie insurance pool he was not punished. If juries were diverging from the law through considerations of sympathy, the Minister added, it was because the logical basis of the law had gone, ♦'he jury system would not stand up to a situation that was repugnant to common sense. All injuries on the road should be compensated for, irrespective of whether the motorist was negligent or not. That was the only solution of the problem.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 9
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