CIVIL LITIGATION
TRIAL BY JURIES PROPOSED AMENDMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In introducing the Juries Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. F. W. Schramm (Lab. Auck. E.) said it proposed certain alterations in the rules relating to juries in civil cases. Tl provided that where the amount claimed did not exceed £SOO either party might obtain a jury of four by giving due notice to that effect. If the amount in dispute exceeded £SOO, the action would be tried before a judge and jury of 12, unless both parties agreed to a jury of four, or to having no jury at all. The bill also provided for selecting special juries drawn from persons engaged in an occupation or trade in connection with which the plaintiff rtms injured to hear actions for personal injuries founded upon breach of contract. The bill was rend a first time.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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