THE JUDICATURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1887, 23 October 1913, Page 5

THE JUDICATURE.

AMENDING BILL REVISED. The Judicature Amendment Bill, the object of which is to enable the Gov emor to appoint two additional Judges tc enable the. Court of Appeal to sit with out interfering with tho course of or dinary Supremo Court business, _wai 1 reported from the Statutes . Revisioi : Committee of the House of Represen 1 tatives yestorday. The Committee recommended severa ; amendments. They suggested that thi Act came into force "on February 1, in stead' of April 1, as proposed in- th< original Bill. It is proposed also tha ' the Governor may revoke the appoint ■ ment of any Judge as a member o 1 either of the two divisions of the Cour of Appeal, hut the power conferred 01 the Governor of appointing Judges ti either division or of revoking appoint ments, shall be exercisable only on thi recommendation of not less than thr» Judges of the Supreme Court, o whom'the Chief Justice shall be one and 'it is' also suggested that the ap pointment.of any Judge as, a meinbe of either division of the Court shall unless sooner revoked, lapse 011 Decern her 31, following his appointment, bu that a Judge may again bo appointei to the same division. The clause a the end of the Bill to permit of hot] divisions of tho Court sitting togethe to hear ' specially important cases ha been struck out. ■