IMPERIAL COURT OF APPEAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8244, 17 December 1910, Page 1

IMPERIAL COURT OF APPEAL.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December -16. Speaking at the law students' dinner last night, Lord Islington said of the questions to come before the Imperial Gonfcrcnco tho discussion which would probably be looked forward to by the legal profession with the keenest interest was tho one which would take place on the subject of whether it would be possible to develop to a further extent the final Court of Appeal for the Empire, the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, which was now -the Supreme Court of Appeal m the Empire, and probably the finest tribunal m the world* from a judicial point of view. It had brought before it with increasing accumulation questions on international and intercolonial matters, and as the Empire developed these questions must accumulate to a corresponding degree. He trusted that the deliberations of the coming conference would end m the discovery of some practical roaj to the extension of the scope of the present judicial tribunal so that m time it would become m essence and m fact a Court of Appeal thoroughly representative of the Empire as a whole, to which all questions on Imperial matters could be referred for finil derision. This would constitute a substantial step towards the goal of organic Imperial unity.