TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 8

TIMELY TOPICS

ft BAND JUDIES. Lord Darling, the famous Judge, Vr. supporting the Bill for the abolition of grand juries, said:' “Anyone, I think, who has a liking for old things must regret to see them go, but one ean hardly help recognising that there has not survived for a. long time any real utility. When they were first made part of the law of the land is lost in antiquity, but in those days there were no magistrates. There was no inquiry before a justice of the peac, and committal of the prisoner for trial. There was an inquiry before-all the wise men of the county, of whom there must have been a large number in olden days, and if they agreed that a person should be put upon his trial or should be destroyed and afterwards tried, that happened to him. The grand jury arose j out of those practices. Now a man is always brought before either a Bench of magistrates or a magistrate, and he is either acquitted or convicted or committed for trial. As. to the grand jury, they invariably acted on the advice of the Judge, I do not think I can recall an instance where a grand jury said that there was no true bill unless the Judge had indicated to them, pretty plainly, that'they.ought to say so.U

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