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The Jury System in British Colonial Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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A heartening impetus has been given in recent years to the study of the “reception” into the dependent and formerly dependent territories of English legal concepts and institutions. One such institution, the “reception” of which appears, so far, to have received little academic attention, is the English jury system.
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2 M. de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique.
page 161 note 1 Criminal Procedure Ordinance, section 187.
page 161 note 2 The Hamlyn Lectures, Eighth Series (published by Stevens & Sons Limited, 1956).
page 161 note 3 “The Jury System, An Australian Point of View”: Journal of Criminal Law, No. 85, January 1958, at page 71.
page 162 note 1 1873, Volume 11 at page 325.
page 162 note 2 May 26th, 1928.
page 162 note 3 The African World Supplement, August 31st, 1928.
page 162 note 4 The Times, February 16th, 1955.
page 163 note 1 Criminal Procedure Ordinance, section 230.
page 163 note 2 Ibid., section 187 (2).
page 163 note 3 Hamlyn Lectures, Trial by Jury, supra.
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