"PITILESS."
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF JURORS
U.S. AND ENGLAND.
BRISBANE, April 6,
The pitiless cross-examination members of jury panels in New York haw to submit to is described as remarkable by Mr. Justice Lukin, who has just returned to Brisbano from a world tour. '■" "' "• . : , ,» ,
He says they can bo -asked any question'" at all, and must answer hefore they are accepted to sit on a, case, To him it seems obviously unfair.and harsh. •.'■■'. , It is very different in England, where, he says, .justice is practised with dignify, fairness, expedition, and bgal brilliance. . •;."..' , ''.!' , In all Courts in England women sit on juries usually in tho proportion of two to ten. He .was told, they; were more severe in their attitude than men, particularly with offences against women. : * ,-,*'>
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 1701, 17 April 1926, Page 5
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