THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1, 31 December 1913, Page 4

THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Some important objections, deserving of consideration have been taken to Lord Haldane’s proposal that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be enlarged and sit in more than one division, and so constitute, a better final muirt of appeal for the Empire. It is pointed out that if Lord Haldane’s proposal were carried out the Judicial Committee would lose its usefulness- as an Imperial Court of Appeal if it did not sit in London. Its prestige can best be maintained by leaving it as it is now, an essentially imperial Court sitting at the heart of the Empire. The worry and trouble incidental to travelling would, it is eontended, not tend to make its decision;any better, 'find 1 it should continue to sit in a place' ’ where it can best hold aloof from All local influences, because it is that exceptional situation which gives so much weight to its rulings. The Lord Chancellor’s suggestion to’ increase the number of the members of the Judicial Comii’Tttee sitting To’ hear colonial ap 1 - peals is j-eghrthhl sis ah 'excellent one; It is thought, however, that in tin reconstruction of the Court an attempt may bo made to limit consider ably the number of questions which can be carried to it. The right to appeal on any question “to the foot of the throne” is, as one writer putt ij, more sentimental than practical