PRIVY COUNCIL.
MR JUSTICE HODGES’ VIEW’S,
fly Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrigh; Melbourne, April 29.
Mr Justice Hodges, interviewed, said: “ The constitution of the Privy Council has been objected to more than once. Men who had occupied positions as judges in Crown colonies where they spent the best part of their working lives dealing with laws which may or may not be British, but which certainly iu some instances were Roman and Dutch, and deciding upon various Eastern customs, are appointed to seats in the Privy Council. These men have had their mental and I bodily powers worked out by exhausting climates, and have gone to reside in England after having earned a retiring allowance, yet they may be called on as they were in a recent New Zealand case, to consider the course of legislation on a particular subject. Such men were not mentally fresh enough or vigorous enough to investigate masses of legislation in some colony where the circumstances are altogether strange to them, and where the changes of conditions are rapid. The solution of the difficulty was to have only one Court of Appeal, and power should be given for the appointment of eminent jurists from auy part of the British Empire.” |
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 878, 30 April 1903, Page 2
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