TALKATIVE JUDGES.
:-t : REBUKED BY SIR JOHN MADDEN, By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriEht Melbourne, April 7. Sir John Madden, the Chief Justice of Victoria, in a public address, significantly remarked that judges should not talk too much. There were plenty of others to take up controversial subjects. The judges should be outside that sort of atmosphere, and in a calmer one.
Sir John Madden's reference is obviously to an address recently delivered by Sir. Justice Higgins, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, on the subject of federal constitutions, with special reference to tho advantages of unification as compared with federalism; The address bore strongly on tho issues to be submitted at the referenda ballot in Australia, and Mr. Justice Higgins plainly indicated his views. Before his elevation to the Bench ho was Attorney-General in the first Australian Labour Ministrv.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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