SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Amendments of County Courts Act 1959

10For section 94(3) (trial by jury) substitute—

(3)Where, on any such application, the court is satisfied that there is in issue—

(a)a charge of fraud against the party making the application ; or

(b)a claim in respect of libel, slander, malicious prosecution or false imprisonment; or

(c)any question or issue of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph,

the action shall be tried with a jury, unless the court is of opinion that the trial requires any prolonged examination of documents or accounts or any scientific or local investigation which cannot conveniently be made with a jury..