OPERATING UNFAIRLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 12

OPERATING UNFAIRLY.

MEMBER'S CONTENTION.

QUESTIONS TO MINISTER.

(Bj Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday.

Contending that in several respects changes made in the Law Keform Act last year were operating unfairly, Mr. A. C. A. Sexton (Independent, Franklin), gave notice of two separate questions to the Attorney-General, Mr. Mason, in the House of Representatives to-day.

The Minister'* attention was drawn by Mr. Sexton to a recent case in which the Court had decided that leave should not be given to issue a third party notice to the husband of a plaintiff who was suing the driver of another car for damages for injuries allegedly received by her on account of the negligence of that driver. Defendant alleged contributory negligence against plaintiff's hueband, who wae the driver of the ear in which plaintiff wae a pas■eager, but the Court refuted to grant the leave aaked for on the ground that the husband could not be made a contributory because his wife could not eat him for damages in that respect.

Mr. Sexton asked if the AttorneyGeneral would bring down an amendment to the Law Reform Act to remedy an obvious injustice.

The other question rawed by Mr. Sexton concerned the "extraordinary results" arising from a section of the Law Reform Act dealing with the amount of claims for damages. He asked whether the Attorney-General had noted the amounts of verdicts given since the alteration had been made in -the law, and if he would take the necessary steps to have a further alteration made.