GRAND JURY
SUBJECT OF QUESTION In a notice of question addressed to the Minister of Justice (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason), Mr C. H. Barnett (Government, Tauranga) asked in the House of Representatives last week whether the Minister’s attention had been drawn to the report of the Supreme Court proceedings in Auckland against a prominent Auckland citizen in which a “no bill” was returned by the Grand Jury after the case in question had been sent forward for trial by an experienced Magistrate, and after a Judge of the Supreme Court of the highest standing had stated that a prima facie case existed in the following terms: “This case presents itself to you as a case for a true bill.”
“The report of the case and the decision of the Grand Jury,” said Mr Burnett, “seems to open for immediate consideration by the Legislature the value of our Grand Jury system under the Constitution, and does it. not imperil a bulwark of our constitutional rights, obligations and liberty ?”
Mr Speaker: This question will have to be revised because it seems to me to be mostly an expression of opinion.
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Te Puke Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 2 August 1938, Page 2
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