OVERSEA APPEALS.
APPELLATE BILL PASSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 12. Tho Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, has been read a 'third time in the House of Commons. In a memorandum prefixwl to tho Appellate Jurisdiction Bill it is set forth that "the increase of the number of Law 'Lords from , four to six, proposed by tho, Bill, is the first stop necessary 'to give olTc-ct to the resolution passed at the Imperial Conference in 1011. The proposals of his Majesty's Government then were that they should add to 'the highest Court of Apneal, both for the United Kingdom, and the Dominions and tho colonics, by seleoting four English Judges of the finest quality: that the quorum should be fixed 'alt, say, five, and that the Court should sit successively in tho House of Lords for United Kingdom appeals, and in the Privy Council for appeals from tho Dominions and the colonies. These proposals were unanimously accepted by tho conference."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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158OVERSEA APPEALS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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