TO CHANGE APPEAL PROCEDURE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 4

TO CHANGE APPEAL PROCEDURE.

WHY NOT COPY ENGLAND, His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Eobert Stout) took opportunity yesterday to comment upon the legislation governing appeals from decisions of the Supremo Court. Hβ expressed the opinion that the method of appealing under the Justieo of the Peace 'Act was not altogether satisfactory, and went on to say that he had held the opinion for some time that New Zealand should have a special Court of Appeal constituted as in £ngland v He had expressed tho opinion Oμ several occasions that, as the quantity of court business in the Dominion had increased greatly of late years, it was highly de.sirablo that a special Court of Appeal should be established to take all appeal matters aud to deal with. certain other business as well. If a Court, comprising, say, three- judges, as in England, wove constituted, the business could bo dealt with more satisfactorily than under tho present arrangement, by which nil the judges, who were engaged in various parts of the country, had to leave their work and assemble in Wellington three times, a year. So long ns the present procedure remained, difficulties would arise. Tho next sittings of the Court of Appeal commence on July 4.