LAW SOCIETY PROTEST
SUPREME COURT DELAYS (P.A.) Wellington, March < The following resolutions were carried by the annual general meeting of the Wellington District Law Society : “That this general meeting of the Wellington District Law Society draws the urgent attention of the Government to the serious inconvenience which is being caused to litigants and the publicige'nrally resulting from the delay in disposing of cases before the Supreme Court and the Compensation Court.
“Protests strongly against any permanent appointment to judicial office of any person who is nit at the time of the- appointment actively engaged in practice at the Bar. "Draws the urgent attention of the Government to the serious shortage of magistrates in the Wellington district, and particularly in the Hutt Valley, which has resulted in serious delays in the disposal of the business of the Magistrate's Court and serious inconvenince to lltlganta and the public generally. "Disapproves in the strongest terms of the amending of Acts of Parliament by Order-in-Councll, or the making of positive enactments beyond matters of administration by the same means."
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 March 1947, Page 4
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175LAW SOCIETY PROTEST Wanganui Chronicle, 5 March 1947, Page 4
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