VALUE OF CHILD’S LIFE
JUDGE SUGGESTS SCALE LONDON, May 13. The Spectator urges, as a result of the remark of Mr Justice Charles in the High Court that the father of a child killed by a car should not have been awarded £IOOO but £l5O. that a regular scale of charges might be drawn up, relieving judges of the responsibility of making a decision of the rightness of which there is no rational criterion. ri Mr T, Kennedy (Labour) will ask the House of Commons to record its strong disapproval of the statement by Mr Justice Charles. Mr Kennedy says that he considers such criticism of a jury’s award “ contrary to the spirit of normal and fair Court procedure.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 12
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