COUNCIL
PROF. J. N. D. ANDERSON, O,B,E.
BRYAN ANNS
PETER ARCHER, Q.C., M.P.
MICHAEL BRYCESON
PETER CARTER-RUCK
MICHAEL ELLMAN
PHILIP ENGLISH
THE LORD FOOT
EDWARD GARDNER, Q.C., M.P. PROF. J. F. GARNER
WILLIAM GOODHART
PERCY GRIEVE, Q.C., M.P.
PROF. C. J. HAMSON
GLYN HARDWICKE
MUIR HUNTER, Q.C.
TOM KELLOCK, Q.C.
PHILIP KIMBER
JUSTICE
(BRITISH SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS.)
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THE RT. HON. LORD GARDINER
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GEOFFREY GARRETT
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LEWIS HAWSER, Q.C.
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On behalf of the JUSTICE delegation which visited your office last week I would like to thank you for the patient way in which you and your colleagues listened to our representations, and to refer to two or three specific matters by way of confirmation or clarification.
Of the points we discussed we think that perhaps the most important are:
(a) the supply of shorthand-writers;
(b) the recruitment and conditions of service of judges;
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the previous experience and background of magistrates;
(d) the right to trial by jury.
In respect of (d) we suggested that it was wrong for the Attorney-General to have the sole power to decide where cases should be tried and that in more serious cases the defendant should have the right, as he has in this
country, to elect for trial by jury. We may not however
have made it clear that, as a corollary to this, we
no reason why District Court Judges should not sit with
juries. The more experienced of them already sit as
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