A RECENT COURT CASE

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 68, 18 November 1884, Page 3

A RECENT COURT CASE

TO THB EDITOE OF THE -STAR. Si*_r— lf. in yonr report of the Resident Magistrate's Court, the case of Belfit v. Belfit is rendered correctly, tbe Magis- j .rate's decision may have been a correct J one, but the way he arrived at it, and the reasons he gives for so deciding, are exceedingly singular. The defendant, he says., *' Believed she had a right to do What she did do whether she had or not," •and npon thi« argument and this alone, he gives a verdict in her favor. I- this law ? because if so, what grave fears Wm must we have of the subversion of justice, for one has only to believe that tbey have a right to do a thing whether they have or not, and the law will support them in their vagaries. I make no animadversions upon the Justice of the decision, for I know nothing whatever of the case more than what appeared in your issue, but some further enlightenment is required I think, if we are to feel that we can with safety place our legal disputes before Mr Ward, nnd know tbat they will be impartially adjudicated upon. I sincerely regret that hss office precludes his replying to this, as tho interest of the public .generally dematid some explanation. For, if it is New Zealand law, that people h*av_ only to believe they have to do a thing, and they can do it with impunity no matter how wrong, then I say " farewell ye courts of law " for I would rather submit any case I might have to chance, and spin a farthing in the air, abiding by what turned uppermost, whether I won or lost than I would enter your doors to have a dispute so intellectually settled. — I am, Ac, Diogenes.