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· ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Report on Ordinance
13
of 1907.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to further amend the Jury Consolidation Ordinance, 1887,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to
the Governor's Instructions.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of section 3 of this Ordinance is to
abolish the present privilege reserved to each of the
parties to a civil action of striking off the names of
six special jurors without cause being shown. Such a
privilege was found to be liable to abuse, because, in some cases, pressure was brought to bear upon the Solicitors for the parties by their clients to strike off their
names from the list of jurors summoned.
The above privilege having been withdrawn, it seems
undesirable that more than seventeen jurors should be summoned.