ALCOHOL TESTS
Magistrates’ Fears (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 27. Blood tests could lead to miscarriages of justice if they were taken as a rigid test of intoxication, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., said today when addressing a luncheon of justices of the peace. If the Government wished to make it illegal as such to have more than a certain amount of alcohol in the blood, this should be supported, he said. But it was not satisfactory to say that because a person had so much alcohol in his blood, then it could be taken as absolute that he was intoxicated, Mr Luxford said. This view was shared by other magistrates.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31123, 28 July 1966, Page 1
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