RIGHT OF APPEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 9

RIGHT OF APPEAL.

THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

CONFIDENCE OF WORKERS.

LABOUR PARTY'S ATTITUDE.

That there should be no interference wil'i the of New Zealand citizens to a]>i«-al to the Privy Council, was ilcci.lcd on by the annual conference of tlio I-ilx-.iir party, reports the "Standard."' A remit intr.iduced by the Takapuna Central branch was: '"That the (rtjvcni-iiu-nt lie to terminate by tion the practice of litigants appealing to oversea* tribunals a<ra:<ist decisions of New Zealand law courts."' rii<- general committee of the conference reporteil: "In \ iew of the fact that tiie l*i i\ y ( iiuncil a|ipear> to Ik- regarded with every confidence throughout the Dominion at the present time, there appears to i>o nn valid reason for the termination <»f the practice of litipmts apjM-alin" x>. this tribunal if tiiev ?o de-ire." Mr. John Read said the committee had taken the trouble to ascertain the -\ iows of member* of the (Jovernmen*.. who were also members of the leyal profession. Their views wore that, as there was no pronounced public opinion on the sulijtvt. there should he n<. interfereiue. Mr. John Huberts {Chri-tclmrehl <~aid that in recent year* various cases which bad l>een decided against tho worker- by the New Zealand courts had been taken to the Privy Council and the decision* revers.e<J. He quote<i the Xapier earthquake case, the inji:-tice in \vhi<-h liad been rectified bv the Privv Council.

Mr. Dowd fTakapunai moved as an amendment that the remit he adopted. Ho stressed the fact that Xew Zealand was a Sovereign State under ihe Statute of Westminster.

Mr. James Roberts ««i<l that ihe watersiders had taken right to the Privy CVinnoil in recent year- and had not lost one. Xn courts wore more anxious to do justice to the workers than were the English courts.

The committee's report was adopted