JUDGE REBUKES MINISTER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1167, 30 June 1911, Page 5

JUDGE REBUKES MINISTER.

ME, JUSTICE GRANTHAFM HITS BACK. By Telcßraph—Press Assoeiation-Copyrieht (Eec. June 29, 11.15 p.m.) London, Juno 29. Mr. Justice Grantham, speaking at Newcastle, referred to recent utterances of. Mr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, and said Judges were prepared to go to prison rather than obey (ho dictates—he would not say of an unscrupulous Minis-ter-but of any Minister who might make unfounded charges against the Judges. LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. During a recent debate in tho House of Commons, Mr. Churchill Btuted that tho Courts were biased, doubtless unconsciously, in dealing with questions involving class and party issues. He added that the Government was erecting a bulwark between tho Courts and the unions.

Mr. Justice Graatluuu's uttorances on the Bench have been notorious for many years past, and attracted much attention a few months ago. Commenting on his utterances at tho Liverpool Assizes in February tho "Law Times" advised him to retire, and said: "Tho worst features of tho whole matter are perhaps the attack mado upon the lato Sir Henry CampbellBannerman and tho extraordinary statement with regard to Mr. Justice Channell. The late Primo Minister in the debate in the House of Commons described the learned Judge as 'an honest,' straightforward,. amiable gentlemen against whose moral character no one who knows him would have a word fr» say,' and now Mr. Justice Grantham sees fit to sny of him that ho 'had to buy off Mr. Swift MacNeil and my character was itaprice he apparently agreed to pay for it. Later in the day, when sentencing a Canadian criminal, he said: "Tho prisonor represonts tho sort of reciprocity Canada has for England—sending criminals here to be punished, while in other mutters she seeks reciprocity with the United States.