PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 19

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

CANADA NOT SATISFIED. DISCUSSIONS IMPENDING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, September 13. Further discussions with London regarding Canada's status within the Empire are indicated. .^ a conference to be held in London in October Canadian representatives will bring -u? the question us to the extent to which he Colonial Laws Validity Act is binding t,! ago there was included in the criminal code of Canada a P-°™«?" that there could be no appeal to tne Privv Council in London on criminal cases, but in the famous Nadan case of four vears ago the defendants challenged the "validity of that provision m the code, and their position was upheld in London. . ~.-□•„ n It was to this opinion that Hon. h. B Bennett, Leader of the Opposition frequently referred in the session o£ ]{)2S When, he was contesting the claim.-, of"the Government to a larger status within the Empire. Mr. Bennett at tha time declared: "There can be no.eucl thai" as equality of status so long as that"British statute (the Colonial Laws Validity Act) remains in force. While there is no public demand in Canada now for abolition of appeals to the Privv Council in civil as well as in criminal "cases, and no disposition, J it u believed, on the part of the present Government to advocate such a £bep, there is a disposition to seek a recognition ■, by the British Government ot Canada's right to do away with appeals if Canada so desires.