Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Subject "British legal system"
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On the expediency of the total abolition of grand juries in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The grand jury is the only public institution now in existence which on a large scale controls and administers taxation without representation. The grand jury is selected by one individual irresponsible to all authority, ... -
On the grand jury question in Ireland, considered with reference to the latest English analogies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)As all our institutions for local government and administration are founded more or less on English precedents, it is useful, in collecting the information necessary for any important change, to combine a sketch of the ... -
On the practicability of codifying English law, with a specimen code of the law of evidence
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)There is a very natural desire on the part of the public to have our laws simplified and condensed. It is a legal maxim that everyone is supposed to know the law, and every person is visited with the consequences of his ...
