AUSTRALIAN JUDICIARY

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN JUDICIARY

DR EVAIT’S CHANCES

SYDNEY, Jan. 9

Dr Evatt, K.C., now appearing for the Commonwealth government in tl)e High Court proceedings to determine the validity or otherwise of the Bveby interim award in connexion w.'di tlie coal crisis, and regarded :n many quarters as a warm favourite for any appointment that the Federal Ministry might make before long to the highest Court in the lands, looks, and is, in fact, almost a boy compared w ; ith Sydney’s other leading legal luminaries. Pie is the youngest member of the Bar to wear silk. If the Government makes a now appointment to the Federal High. Court Bench, and gives the rich judicial prizes within its keeping 10 a man of Labour leanings, the general feeling in Sydney is that it cannot make a better .choice than young Dr Evatt, although Mr “Eddy” McTiernan, another youthful member of the Sydney Bar, and a former State Attorn-ey-General during the Lang Labour regime, is also talked of, among ethers, as a possible appointee. Behind Dr Evatt’s almost boyish and buoyant personality are attributes which ought to make him a good Judge—a reputation as a very sound constitutional authority, a dignity of hear ing. which keeps him out of scrapes even in the quarrelsome Legislative-" Assembly, in which he sits for a suburban industrial electorate, and, with trains, a youthfulness of outlook. Press comment in Sydney is that there is no need for another appointment to the High Court Bench at a time when economy ought' to he the watchword and when the present Bench does not appear to be overworked, but pressure, it is believed, is being brought to bear on the Commonwealth Government to take Die opportunity to give the Court a Labour leavening.