Complex sentence: Gill thereupon asked Justice Fulton's permission to question Gurrin about the 1877 lists, but under British procedures earlier convictions of a man cannot be mentioned in court until the jury had given its verdict.
Split into simpler sentences: Gill thereupon asked Justice Fulton's permission to question Gurrin about the 1877 lists. But under British procedures earlier convictions of a man cannot be mentioned in court until the jury had given its verdict.