PEER AS WITNESS.
TOLD TO LEAVE BENCH. A magistrate peer who gave evidence in an English court recently in which he was sitting was told to leave the. bench. He was Lord Sandys, one of the Worcester County magistrates, who gave evidence in an ejectment application against a former worker on his estate. After giving evidence, Lord Sandys, who, it was stated, was not adjudicating in the case, walked as though he intended to take his seat on the bench, when one of the magistrates, Mr T. W. Parkes, exclaimed: "I am going to object to Lord Sandys coming on the bench after giving evidence in the witness box. It is a perfectly wrong procedure altogether'' The chairman, Mr H. C. Gardner, then remarked to Lord Sandys, "I am afraid you must retire." On the ground that the notice to quit was not valid, the application against the tenant was dismissed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 211, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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