DAMAGES BILL
Attack By Judge
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 26. England’s Chief Justice, Lord Parker, last night called a British Government bill “as blatant a pieee of confiscatory legislation as it is possible to imagine.” The hill abolishes certain rights at common law for war damage compensation, indemnifies the government against being sued and makes the law retrospective. It has the effect of setting aside a court ruling that the Burmah Oil Company was entitled to compensation for damage to its installations when the Japanese invaded Burma during World War 11. Lord Parker said: “Perhaps the gravest of the charges I can bring against this bill is that it completely over-rides the verdict of the highest court in this land. It is something in the nature of a slight which must be hard to swallow.”
The court he referred to is the House of Lords, sitting in its judicial capacity.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30710, 27 March 1965, Page 15
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149DAMAGES BILL Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30710, 27 March 1965, Page 15
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