PROTRACTED TRIALS
AMERICAN COURT SYSTEM DESIRE FOR REFORM (Per Press 1 Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The frequent protracted trials that take place in American courts are not popular with the American legal profession, and there is a general desire in the United States for a change to something more nearly approaching the British system, according to the Hon. William H. Attwel, a judge of the Federal Court at Dallas, Texas, who passed through Wellington by the Makura yesterday. He said that lie was visiting Australia for a month and would spend some time in New Zealand. His visit was partly for holiday reasons, and partly to get ideas that might lead to an improvement of court proeeduro in the United States. There was a general feeling in America, he said, that much of the court work was dragged out far too much. A great deal of time had to 5)o spent, oa cases that could be disposed ot' much more quickly without;, sacrificing the interests of justice, and without losing the dignity desired in court proceedings.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18765, 23 July 1935, Page 4
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