"SOMEBODY IN AN OFFICE."
CHIEF JUSTICE'S DISLIKE. APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES. LONDON, December 6. Voicing his pleasure at the presence of Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, at a dinner, and apparently having in mind the remarks of a previous speaker, that industrial disputes lost 515,000,000 working days in the past 15 years, who scouted the idea that great improvements could be effected merely by Government control, Lord! Hewart declared: "If some sinister forces were to prevail, there would be no Lord Chancellor."
The Lord Chief Justice continued: "There would be in Britain something called a Minister of Justice, not trained in the law and not aware of the traditions of the bar, but a successful soapboiler or enterprising tea dealer would hold that office or that of Home Secretary. When a distinguished foreigner came to England and asked who appointed His Majesty's judges, the answer would be 'somebody in an office appointed them.'"
Lord Hewart added that a Minister of Justice in Britain would "be here today and gone to-morrow, and very soon the position of judges here would be more like the position of judges in some other countries."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 5, 7 January 1929, Page 17
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