‘‘TRIAL BY PEERS.”
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Feb'ruary 4. I be tlor.se of Lords by 45 votes to 24 decided that the system of trial ot peers by peers had outlived its usefulness. . \ iscount Sunkey, ex-Lord Chancellor, who foreshadowed a Bill on the matter, said that the noble lord who was the chairman of a company might swindle a gullible public to the extent of thousands of pounds, which might be a misdemeanour for which ho could be tried at the Old Bailey or the Assizes, but if the same noble lord stole a silver matchbox worth s<>s it would be a 'felony for which he must be tried by liis peers. _Lord de Clifford’s trial has cost £/0() compared with probably £35 if lie had been, tried at the Old Bailey.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13175, 6 February 1936, Page 5
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