LETTERS: Masons as jurors?

Friday 18 October 1996 23:02 BST

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Sir: With reference to "Masons make better jurors, say judges" (15 October) ... these are the chaps who assemble in darkened rooms, refuse to admit women, wear regalia which the average drag queen would consider rather OTT, bare various portions of their anatomy whilst giving each other funny handshakes and muttering secret passwords and take an oath which owes more to Just William and the Gang of the Black Hand than the Royal Courts of Justice ... ? Or did the Court of Appeal in Guernsey misdirect itself?

B J CAIRNS

London N22

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