JUDICIAL AMENDMENTS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2866, 1 June 1882, Page 3

JUDICIAL AMENDMENTS.

The Christchurch Chamber of Commerce baste been considering the question of law reform, and the result was the passage of the following resolution “ That in order to simplify and facilitate the recovery of debts and the procedure generally of the Supreme Court, this Chamber would beg most urgently to present to the Government the following suggestions, feeling convinced, as the Chamber does, that there is no valid reason why actions should not be tried in the Supremo Court with the same simple procedure as that in force under ther District Court Act: (X) That , the jurisdiction of the Besident Magistrate’s Court should be reduced to £SO ; (2) That the procedure under the Supreme Court jurisdic-

lion should be the same as at present existing for the District Courts; (3) That on this change being effected the District Court should ho abolished ; (4) That in the first; instance the amount under the amended jurisdiction and ..procedure of the Supreme Court should be £SOOO ; (5) that tho costs of the proceedings should be fixed by a. sliding sca'e of percentage for both, sides, that is to say, that the successful barty can only obtain costs according to a certain percentage, and 1 that the solicitor, in charging' his own client, should also only charge percentage on the amount recovered by plaintiff, or in cases where plaintiff fails, his solicitor should only chafge as per scale ; (6) that the sitting of the Court under tho simpler jurisdiction should’bo fixed by the Judges, and should, at tho largo centres of population, bo hold at least once a ■fortnight,” Copies of the resolutions will bo sent to other Chambersjof merco.