CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9] — Page 369

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of the Chamber of Commerce that the law as to trial by jury should be amended, I have had prepared a list of cases in which applications for juries have been made, and of those in which

it has been refused which I now forward.

2. From the first list Your Excellency will see

that the application is not frequently made; from the second

that it has only been refused in four ca888,

5.

As to these, in two of them it would have been quite impossible to have had a trial by jury, because of the mass of accounts and other details involved; and in one of

these an assessor was appointed.

One of them might have been tried by a jury,

but at the time the order was asked for it seemed most inadvisable to make it, as there appeared to be a possibility that complicated accounts would have to be gone into. And in one of them it could not be granted owing to a technical

objection.

5. Your Excellency will see therefore that the case for the alteration of the law put forward by the Chamber is not

borne out by the facts.

6. I may add that personally I am not at all un- favourable to juries, though there have been a few cases in

which

His Excellency,

(DOBRONA.K.A .ZM .20

Sir Frederick Lugard, K.Q.M.G.,

Governor of Hongkong.

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