This article traces the development of the New Zealand jury system. Most noteworthy in thisdevelopment has been the lack of controversy the system has created. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, the pursuit of equality in the legal system generally led to debate and reform of juries in relation to representation, race and gender.
White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence, Sidney L. Harring (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1998)