24 JANUARY 1987, page 17

Leave The Jury Alone

Paul Barker attacks the Government's attempt to tinker with the jury system TliERE are problems in having intellec- tual chief constables, like the present Metropolitan......

One Hundred Years Ago

SIR . . . She was not intended to be a story of imaginative adventure only. In the first place, an attempt is made in it to follow the action of the probable effects of......