Declamation in Court
Proceedings have been lodged in the Supreme Court and removed to the Court of Appeal in connection with the Lower Hutt City Coyncil’s application for a declamatory judgment.-The ,Dominion (Wellington daily newspaper), May 23, 1946. HEN learned lawyers leave the Bar And to the Bench are lifted They give up arts in which they are Peculiarly gitted; The truth no longer they extract By cross-examination, And drop-this is a dismal factThe art of declamation. UT Lower Hutt will put this rightAt any rate it hopes to; Its council gird themselves to fight, Its counsel know the ropes too, Scorning the dull decrees of yore, Knowing what legal fudge meant, They launch their application for Declamatory judgment. N OW therefore let the Bench prepare The sledgehammer and needle, The impassioned plea that cleaves the air, The whisper and the wheedle, Give over splitting legal straws, And raise, with noble fury, The ringing tones that win a cause Before a common jury. GeeP luck go with you, Lower. Hutt! No scheme was e’er so happy, To jolt the judges trom their rut, And make the sittings snappy. The fists that thump, the arms that soarNo finer sight could I see. And this is all at present, for The case is sub judice.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 22
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214Declamation in Court New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 22
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