IMPERIAL TRIBUNAL OF JUSTICE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 7

IMPERIAL TRIBUNAL OF JUSTICE.

SUGGESTED AMBULATORY COMMITTEE. . ' By Tedfleioph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 4. Lord Baldane, Lord 1 .High Chancellor, in. an address at University - College, suggested' that the Privy Council Judicial Committee should sit ,in the; different centres of Empire, thus helping to solve, the. unification problem. He hinted, that it .would possibly become the supreme tribunal for Britain. He added that whatever changes_ were made, the, desire of the Dominions to reserve their right of appeal to the King in Council should be respocted. ' Both parties, said Lord Haldane, were agreed that the Socond Chamber must be reformed. • It would be impossible then for it to remain the supreme Appellate Court for the United Kingdom appeals. ; .The King's Council might be a substitute, as was proposed in the Home Rule Bill. This Court might also sit in several divisions. If a boundary question in Canada arose, it would bo easy for the Home members to go and deal with such matters on the spot. The Committee might also ibe strengthened by distinguished members from the Dominions. The Supreme Court of Appeal then would not offend the cation which the self-governing Dominions set up—that the Court must not go outside of themselves. .