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ARBITRATION COURT

DEPUTY JUDGES APPOINTED

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 26. The appointments of Mr D. J. Dalglish, assistant law draftsman, of Wellington, and Mr O. G. Stevens, barrister and solicitor, of Dunedin, as the deputy-judges of the Court of Arbitration, was announced to-day by the Minister of Labour (Mr A. McLagan). The appointments are made in terms of the recent amendment to the Industrial Conciliation and Abritration Act

Mr Dalglish, who is 43 years of age, was educated at the Timaru Main School, Timaru Boys’ High School, Nelson College, and Victoria University College. He is an LL.B., and was admitted as a solicitor in 1925 and as a barrister in 1926. For some years he practised law at Wellington as a partner in the legal firm of Buddle, Anderson, Kirkcaldie. and Parry During 1937 he was a member of the Wellington City Mortgage Adjustment Commission, and chairman of the No. 2 Commission from the time it was constituted. In March, 1938, he was appointed to the Law Drafting Office as first assistant Parliamentary law draftsman.

Since that time he has drafted many important measures, including the Factories Act, 1946, and enactments relating to industrial matters. He is the joint-author with his former partner, Mr H. E. Anderson, of “The Law Relating to Companies in New Zealand,” and is also the author of a recently-published students’ book on the same subject.

Mr Stevens, who is 44. was born in Dunedin, where he received his education and qualified. He started practice in 1930, and has practised extensively both in civil and criminal courts. He has also appeared before quasi-judicial tribunals. For some years he has appeared in most of the leading jury cases in the Supreme Court at Dunedin.*

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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 10

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ARBITRATION COURT Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 10

ARBITRATION COURT Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 10