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MR MATHEWS SAID CONCERN WAS ALSO EXPRESSED ABOUT DEFINITION OF COMPLEX COMMERCIAL CRIME AND THE EXTENT OF THE OBLIGATIONS ON THE DEFENCE TO DISCLOSE ITS CASE.
"CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS WERE MADE AND PROPOSED LEGISLATION WERE DISCUSSED, HE SAID.
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
"AS A RESULT OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS AMENDMENTS TO CATER FOR THE AREAS OF CONCERN WERE MADE TO THE WHITE BILL.'
NEW FORM OF COURT
THE BILL BEFORE THE COUNCIL INTRODUCED A PROCEDURE FOR DEALING WITH COMPLEX COMMERCIAL CRIME.
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TURNING TO ANOTHER OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS, MR MATHEWS SAID IT ALSO SUGGESTED THAT A DECISION SHOULD BE TAKEN ON THE TRIAL OF COMMERCIAL CRIMES BILL 1985 IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE'S CONCLUSION THAT THE MODE OF TRIAL FOR COMPLEX COMMERCIAL CRIMES SHOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED.
(THE 1985 BILL HAD SUGGESTED THAT A JUDGE ASSISTED BY TWO COMMERCIAL ADJUDICATORS, RATHER THAN A JUDGE AND JURY, TRY SUCH CASES).
"THE ADMINISTRATION AGREES THAT TRIAL BY JURY SHOULD REMAIN, MR MATHEWS SAID.
ACCORDINGLY, HE LATER DURING THE SESSION FORMALLY WITHDREW THE 1985 BILL, UNDER STANDING ORDER 52.
DEBATE ON THE NEW BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
FURTHER EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY SERVICE PROPOSED
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FOUR MAIN PROBLEMS ARE ADDRESSED BY THE JURY 1988, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID IN COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
(AMENDMENT} BILL
THE LEGISLATIVE
SIR
DAVID SAID THE
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE BILL, FIRST PROBLEM CONCERNED EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY SERVICE.
HE EXPLAINED THAT SECTION 5 OF THE ORDINANCE CATEGORIES OF PERSONS FROM JURY SERVICE.
"THE PROVISION TO EXEMPT URBAN COUNCILLORS WAS MADE IN 1971 WHEN IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT THE SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER THEIR DUTY TO RENDER SAID.
EXEMPTED CERTAIN
FROM JURY SERVICE COUNCILLORS' DUTIES JURY SERVICE," HE
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