MIXED JUDIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18157, 31 January 1921, Page 5

MIXED JUDIES

HEARING A DIVORCE CASE: J '

"A TERRIBLE ORDEAL."

Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright* „ LONDON, January 28. Four days’ divorce proceedings , before a . mixed jury, culminated in a disagreement for the second time.

Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, K.C., who appeared for the wife of the respondent, •• remarked: “This is my first case before a mixed jury and I hope I may never have' another.” , • 1 _ j The foreman stated that no question had arisen as between the men and the. women jurors. Two married jurywomen described listening to the letters connected . with the case as a terrible ordeal. Two unmarried jurywomen stated . that the duties should be confined to married women above a certain age. ; < Miss Barker, a juror, who during the ■ . war was a superintendent of women monition workers at Woolwich, and is now prominent in connection with the women’s unemployment movement, considers that women should sit an any case. She says: : " It is no use talking of unpleasant details or of making distinctions between - married and unmarried women.”—-A. and, N.Z. Cable. n