WOMEN ON JURIES
Sir, —Would you kindly inform me, through this column, if there were women in Dunedin who were eligible to be called as jurors at the recent trial for murder; and, if so, why they were not called?—Yours, etc., JUSTICE. February 20, 1955. [Mr C. Mason, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Dunedin, was asked to comment on this letter, and he said: “The Juries Act provides the procedure for drawing juries. The jury roll, containing the names of all persons eligible to serve, is prepared by the police. The names are numbered and cards with corresponding numbers are placed in a ballot box. Cards for the number of jurors required to serve for a week are drawn from the ballot box, and the nairies of the jurors obtained from the corresponding number on the jury roll. Summonses are then issued. When the present jury roll was numbered, the name of only one woman juror was noticed; and she will take the same chance in the ballot as male jurors.”]
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27593, 25 February 1955, Page 3
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