MORE JUDGES WANTED.
PRIVY COUNCIL AND COURT.
(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.* (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. In the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Inskip, Attorney-General, moved the appointment of two additional members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at a salary of £4000 and a! pension of £1000 and an additional judge of the Appeal Court at a salary of £6000, and a pension of £3750. He pointed out that the late Lord Haldatie shortened his life by overwork on the Judicial Committee. Sir H. Slesser, K.C. (Lab., Leeds): Will Lord Birkenhead claim the Lord Chancellor pension of £5000 seeing he does not propose to serve on the Judicial Committee ? The Attorney-General said Lord Birkenhead Informed him he would shortly undertake new employment with substantial emoluments. He proposed to claim the pension only in the .transition period. Nevertheless Lord Birkenhead's view was that the pension was for past and not present legal services. Sir Hamar Greenwood (Con., Walthamstow) said the Judicial Committee was the strongest link in the Empire and needed to be strengthened.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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