JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 220, 11 June 1920, Page 7

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Sir—l desire to thank "Englishman" j for his courteous letter published in your j issue of Juno 9, and have much plea-] sure in supplying him with chap- j ter and verso for what ho erroneously ! ascribes ito mo ns an "wwimption," viz., ] that tho ewoaring-in of the Chief Jus-.i tie® of Australia as a member of tho I Privy Council carries with it, as a mat- j t«r of cenrso, appointment to tho Judi- i cial Committee. Tho Judicial Committee Amendment ; Act, 1895, as amended by the Appellate ; Jurisdiction Act, 1908, enacts (ipsissima ; verba)i Privy Councillors who are or have been Judges of the Supremo Court of : tho Dominion of Canada, or of a j superior court in any of tho provinces ] of tho Dominion, or of New South . j Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, | South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, ' j West Australia, the Cape of Good j Hope, or Natal, or of any otlior Brit- i ißh possession fixed by , Order-in- j Council, or Chief Justice or Justices ; of tho High Court of Australia, or . j Chief Justice or. Judges of the Supremo Court of Newfoundland, or j Judges of a superior court of the Transvaal or of the Orango River Colony, are also members of tho Judicial Committee.. j Any Australian (Federal or State) Su- ' promo Court Judge, as well as tho Chief Justice or any Supremo Court Judge of the Dominion of Now Zealand, therefore, j on being appointed to the Privy Council, j beoomes, ipso facto, a member of tho j Judicial Committee by virtue of Impel- J ial legislation'above cited—l am. etc., i • V PI3RCIVAL «T?. ..WAi)DY, ! Wellington, June 10, 1020.- •