ASSESSMENT COURT'S POWERS
DEALING WITH CONTEMPT The Assessment Court has n 0 to commit anyone for contempt court. “The court may not want to use • power,” explained the president, J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., at Y esterd ‘J\, sitting in Auckland of the court it certainly should have it.” .. It would be extremely inconve the president suggested, if a man to court and said exactly y thought about it, and the court no power to deal with himMr. Hewitt also ruled that »• had no jurisdiction to awards <-o*^ “Inferior courts hold no powers such are P ossess 2L e . *** Supreme Court,” he said. 1 created by Statute and have by the ruling of Statutes/
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 16
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