LAW AND POLITICS.
A-UNIQUE SITUATION^ MR. JUSTICE CRANTHAH'AND HIS,: CRiTICS. (By Telceraph—Press Associrfion-Copyrißlitl' London, February 9. In connection with ,tho. sensation caused at the Liverpool-Assizes by remarks made by tho presiding - judge, Mr. Justice Grantham, of the King's Bench Division of tho High Court, who repudiated what 'ho. described as a charge of political partisanship, arising out of his decision in tho Yarmouth election petition"caso in 1906, it is' pointed out that tho only method of removing him from tho Bench would bo by petition by both Houses of Parliament. - Mr. Asquith, the Prime': Minister, stated in the House of Commons;that Sir William Grantham had signally violated the obligation of tho Bench to abstain from criticising Parliaments Ho had thereby created a unique situation. Tho Prime Minister asked for time to consider tho best course to adopt in tho matter. .'..:"■/
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19110211.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140LAW AND POLITICS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in