DELAY IN APPOINTING NEW JUDGE

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20978, 5 October 1933, Page 7

DELAY IN APPOINTING NEW JUDGE

CHIEF JUSTICE'S COMMENT (riUsss asbocullios 'ftttaiujt.) - WELLINGTON, October 4. Reference was made in the Court ot Appeal by the Chief Justice, (Sir Michael Myers) to the ineonvenietica arising out of the non-appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court Bench, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent retirement of Mr Justice Adams. His Honour, in declining to make a fixture for a partly-heard appeal, stated that it was impossible to make a fixture for the present sessions of the Court of Appeal. The court would be Sitting almost certainly into the following week, by which time it would have heard no. fewer than 20 cases, many Involving important and difficult Questions of law and entailing a great deal of research. Only a few days remained between the end of the sitting and th 6 Commencement of the circuit sitting, arid it would be necessary for one judge from Wellington to preside at Christchurch over the sittings soon to commence there, the result being that all the judges concerned in the Court of Appeal would soon be completely engaged on Supreme Court work.