AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT.
. v ' -—- APPOINTMENTS CRITICISED. IJj Telegraph—Prces Association -Copy rich 1 •... (Bee. March,.l4, 8.30 p.m.)' •• ■" Sydney, March U. '. The Incorporated Law'lhstitute is not . pleased at.the latestappointments s to.the High Court Bench, and lias, forwarded to the Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, resolutions setting .out that in order to ensure that the High Court, the Court n't Appeal from the Supreme ,Courts of the States, shnli retain the fullest measure of tho confidence of the public,-, it is essential that the appointments to it shall be raado from-the foremost ranks of the'profession -in one .or more of the. States, and that tho council notices with regret two. recent appointments, and fears that a dangerous • precedent has been created. t; ' :—- ■ •Mr. A. B. Piddington, a Sydney lawyer, and Mr. Powers, the Commonwealth • Crown Solicitor, .were, last month ap--1 pointed to the High Court Bench.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 7
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142AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 7
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