DECREASE IN TRIALS
Reason Not Obvious (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 4. The number of criminal trials in the Supreme Court had declined sharply but no obvious factor could be suggested as the cause, said the annual report of the Justice Department tabled in Parliament. , Figures did not indicate an increase in the more serious offences dealt with in the Magistrate’s Court.
Criminal trials for 1964 were shown at 388, compared with 444 for the previous year.
In the Magistrates’ Court there had been an increase in the criminal field, which included traffic offences, from 33,014 in 1963 to 36,533 last year.
The volume of work in the large Auckland court was a cause for serious concern.
The time was fast approaching when consideration would have to be given either to the establishment of other courts in the Auckland metropolitan area or an appropriate division of the comprehensive jurisdiction of the present Auckland court between two or more courts operating as separate units.
“Perhaps both measures might prove necessary if the present rate of expansion of the court continues,” said the report.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 8
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