THE HUNTER WILL

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1933, Page 6

THE HUNTER WILL

STILL FURTHER- LITIGATION

(Per Press Association-*- Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, June 19

Another phase of the now famous Hunter family litigation is to come before the Court of Appeal on Jame 28.

When the .lease was called by the registrar of. the Court of Appeal this morning for the purpose of appointing a fixture for the hearing, Lady Hunter, who was sitting in the back of, the court, rose and coming forward, said that she would by arguing the appeal herself in person. At her request the fixture was made for June 28.

It i© understood that the proceedings -involve'blnapjysskL ljrom an order of Mr last November, when he 'an application made by Lady&Hauiiter for vacation in her favour of thb previous order miade by the same Judge in June, 1932, under the Family Protection Act, grant- | ing Lady Hunter an allowance of i £4OO per annum out of the capital. While the Happen ranee of a woman litigant to argue her own suit in any court is njost unusual, Lady Hunter’s intended action will be ©till more rare. Inquiries made from court officials elicited that, to the bc©t of their knowledge this will be the first time in New Zealand that a woman litigant has appeared before the Court of Appeal. At the same- time it i© ■ recollected that, recently a Canadian woman litigant appeared before the Privy Council, and prosecuted successfully nn apnea 1 from the Canadian courts’ decision.