GRAND JURY SYSTEM
' GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM ' ADMLMSTRATION OF JUSTICE Tile grand jury system was described by Mr. Justice Johnston, in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday as being the guardian of tue people. Grand juries, His Honour addea, prevented persons being put on trial unnecessarily, but the British system of justice provided for both grand and common juries.
Referring to the functions of the common jury, His Honour said that in criminal law it would be too great a burden to place on the shoulders of one man the responsibility of deciding the issue. Tills responsibility was spread over the jurors, so that they could give a common-sense verdict. “It is just as well that the public should understand Hie way our ci'im|inal law works, and the saleguards we have for the protection of lhe individual, and the safeguarding of freedom,” said His Honour. I ‘lt is well that we should bear in 'mind these days, specially days of new I crimes and new offences, that judges who have so much to do with the adIministration of the law pay such atItention and respect to juries. ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 7
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185GRAND JURY SYSTEM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 7
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