ALTERING LAW OF DAMAGES
• INJURIES CAUSED BY MOTOR-CARS “JURIES HAVE FINAL DECISION” A statement that the alteration to the law of damages as proposed last week by the Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. Bi Mason) would have little practical effect was made last night by Mr F. W. Johnston at a meeting of the South Island Motor Union. Mr Mason said that Parliament would be asked this session to consider legislation to do away with the need for proving negligence as a basis for damages for injuries caused by motor-cars. “The juries have practically the final decision,” Mr Johnston said last night, “and you have only to look round at the results of cases Only 3 or 4 per cent, of plaintiffs lose their cases when they go before a jury. This alteration of the law is not going to make any difference except to barristers, and it will do them out of a job.”
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22194, 10 September 1937, Page 12
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