COURT OF APPEAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 4

COURT OF APPEAL.

THE QUESTION OF SITTINGS. The remarks made by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), published yesterday, and bearing on tho necessity for the establishment of a special Court of Appeal in placo of the present arrangement, under which the judges have to leave their regular work in different parls of New Zealand, and assemble in Wellington three times a year, was referncd to (lie Minister for Justice (Dr. Findlay) ycst.Tilay by a representative of The liojiisio.t. Dr. Findlay pointed out that tho Ciiief Justice had previously, in a long and able communication, explained and supported tho views that had been briefly outlined yesterday morning. At theniesent moment, said Pr. Findlay, there were seven Supreme Court judges, although it was true one was absent owing to ill-health. As lie understood it the main ground of tho Chief Justice's views v,..-ri> that so largo a Court of Appeal was unnecessary, and that tho absence of the whole of the judges from their respective districts tliioughont the Court of Appeal sitting.;, three times a year, was inconvenient to litigants and the public generally in these districts.! and involved considerable unnecessary expense. In accordance- with his duties as Minister for Justice ho proposed to bring his Honour's observations before tho Government for consideration.