SON OF AN " ALIEN ENEMY "

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3086, 17 May 1917, Page 6

SON OF AN " ALIEN ENEMY "

CASE FOR ADMISSION AS A SOLICITOR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Auckland, May 16. In the Supreme Court the Chief Justice delivered the decision of the Court of Appeal on the application of Mr. Jack Dalinan to be admitted as a solicitor. ■ Sir Robert Stout said there'was no doubt, that the applicant was a. British subject, hut the Government had added a war regulation which declared that naturalised' British subjects were hereafter to bo treated as alien enemies. This had happened io appellant's father. The question to be considered was whether it had any effect on the applicant. The decision of fcho Judges was that it had rona. The applicant had become a British subject not by reason of his father's naturalisation, but because ho was born in New Zealand. If the . Government wished to affect the status of persons in his position it must do so by express legislation or by war regulation. As' be was a British subject he was not affected by the , war reflation. , The Court was of opinion that ho should be admitted.

Sir Robert-Stout, addressing the applicant, said the affidavit filed showed him to bo of exemplary character, and ho wished him every success in his profession. . . ".