JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 215, 9 June 1920, Page 7

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Sir.—ln his letter to you in your issue of te-day, Mr. P. E. Waddy seems to assume that tho eweaiing-m of Chief Justice Knox as a member of the ran Council carries with it. as a matter of course, appointment to tho Judicial Coniinittaa, \ , 1 have not any work of reference at hand by'which I can test this assumplion, and therefore I would aslc.hiiu foi his authority for the proposition.■ doubt, if any colonial Privy Councillor holding or having hold high -judicial office in his own country happened .to bn in London when the Judicial Committee was sitting, ho would as a mattor of courtesy, bo invited to occupy a seat on the bench. But this would; not make him a member of that committ « in the same sense that tho lato hir Joshua Williams was In my day at Home, only retired Judges were appointed to it, save in the notorious case of Itfr Kobert Collier, the grave scandal attaching to which appointment was one of the causes which .led to the defeat of June 1, 1920.