NIGERIAN MAGISTRATE
A Nigerian chief Magistrate has been inspecting the organisation of the Christchurch law courts for the last two days.
He is Mr A. R. Soluade, who is in New Zealand under a United Nations fellowship to study human rights. He spent yesterday in the Supreme Court while a trial was in progress, and was most impressed with the aids available to the judge. These facilities would make his job much easier, and the case easier to follow, he said. “In my own country, I get ja court clerk and nothing else,” Mr Soluade said. In New Zealand, the court is served by a judge’s associate, a registrar, several clerks, and the judge himself. On Thursday, Mr Soluade was introduced to the Magistrate’s Court during a traffic prosecution sitting. He was a guest of Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., on the Bench. Mr Soluade is also studying the Ombudsman system as a main theme of his fellowship. He would like to see the sj'stem incorporated in Nigeria’s next constitution.
Mr Soluade will leave Christchurch today for Dunedin.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33355, 13 October 1973, Page 14
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