SUPREME COURT.-MORT V. CRAIG, AND BAD LAWS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 563, 30 October 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)

SUPREME COURT.-MORT V. CRAIG, AND BAD LAWS.

To the Editor of the Herald.

Sib, — Kvery honest man in New Zealand must feel indebted to you for your able article in yesterday's issue oa the above subjects. The forcible nrinner ia which you point out the hardships inflicted on Craig in the sacred name of Justine will surely have effect with the Legislature, aucl assist Craig to obtain through its medium that justice which is right. The rulings of the Chief Justice throughout the weary case of Mohi v. Craig may have beea perfectly legal, sterling law ;.but it does appear singular to me that the judicial interpretation of a defective law should become in the Court the means of ruining any one ; —and ia Craig's case it is the more distressing, because the modus ojperandl of an unconditional injunction to Mohi has vory much contributed to briug-about the deplorable issue recorded in the pamphlet of Craig's

wrongs. I am quite ignorant of legal forms and etiquette, but always believed that the primary functions ot a Judge were to see justice done; and it is a pity that the Chief Justice has not power to interpose his autkovity to stop iitigation based on injustice. After having read your comments, I must consider that no such power is vested in Judges, and the sooner such power is given the better, as with the power to do justice should be coupled the responsibility for doing wrong, for surely nothing can be more monstrous or outrageous than a Court of Justice actually perpetrating an injustice. —I am, &c, Mbecatoe.