LAW REFORMS
COMMITTEE SET UP
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S ACTION
GRAND JURY ISSUE
In order to investigate certain questions of law reform, among them that relating to the abolition of the Grand Jury, a Law Reform Committee has been appointed by the Attorney-Gene-ral (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason), and it will hold its first meeting this month. In making this announcement" today, the Minister said that on the Committee he had the assistance of members of the Supreme Court Bench, the legal profession, and the law faculties at the University. "This Committee," said Mr. Mason, "has been set up at the request of the legal profession as expressed at the Dunedin law conference." Questioned regarding the suggested abolition of the Grand Jury—upon which he admitted he had decided v i ews —Mr. Mason remarked that from time to. time the question had been raised as to whether the Grand Jury had not outlived its usefulness. Arguments against it had been "shortly expressed by saying that it could only do again, and do imperfectly, what had already been done, and done well. "I have no doubt," he added, "that the question of the utility of the Grand Jury in New Zealand at the present day will be one of the early matters that the Committee will take into consideration."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1937, Page 12
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216LAW REFORMS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1937, Page 12
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