CASES FOR TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 8

CASES FOR TRIAL.

MOTOR COLLISIONS.

A HEAVY CIVIL LIST. CHIEF JUSTICE'S COMMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, this ,day. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. Addressing the grand jury, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said the calendar contained the usual variety of charges, but included one that was unusual, the forgery of bank notes. ''You will perhaps have observed that charges of negligence in handling motor cars are entirely absent,"' said his Honor, "but yo umust not infer from that that everything has been all right in this district during the last two or three months in connection with the driving and handling of moto rears, because, on inquiry from the "officers of the Court, I a minformed that although there are no criminal charges of negligence, there are on the list of civil actions for, trial no fewer than 15 collision cases for trial before a judge and jury, and six for [trial before a judge alone. You will agree, no doubt, that that is a fairly considerable number, especmially when you take into consideration the known fafct that a great many of the caeee where injury happens in the handling of moto rears are settled out of Court and never reach the list of civil actions for trial."