SUPREME COURT CEDED FULL STATUS
Ruling Of Canadian Privy Councii LONDON, January 14. The Privy Councii ruled that the Supreme Court of Canada can be recognised as the final court of appeal for that Dominion instead of the Privy Councii itself The case wTas one coneerning the Canadian Government's right to abolish appeals to the Privy Councii. T'he Government held that the Canadian Supreme Court was the fmal court of appeal, but the Provinces of Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick contended that the right of appeal to the Privy Councii could not be denied them. The judgment stated: "It appears to their Lordships that it is not consistent with the political conception which is embodied in the British Commonwealth of Nations that one member of the Commonwealth should be precluded from setting up, if it so desires, any supreme court of appeal having jurisdiction both ultimate "and exclusive of any other member."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19470115.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5302, 15 January 1947, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154SUPREME COURT CEDED FULL STATUS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5302, 15 January 1947, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in