LORD BIRKENHEAD’
JUDICIAL AND COMMERCIAL EMOLUMENTS REFERENCES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) London, November 23. The Earl of Birkenhead’s pension was referred to in the House of Commons debate on the Bill for increasing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. . Mr. J. H. Hudson (Lab.) said: “We are confronted by one of these Judges setting himself up for auction in the seeking of positions, making it clear that he is out for a great deal more than he has hitherto received. . We should make it clear that there is no place for such a man iu the High Court. The Attorney-General (Sir Thomas Inskip) has been saying that these things will make people think. I must not be taken as in the leastwise criticising Lord Birkenhead, who has taken a course he is perfectly entitled to so far as the rules of constitutional practice are concerned. The best check on such errors of judgment will be public opinion.” Captain Wedgwood Benn said that Lord Birkenhead-enjoyed--his judicial emoluments and earned his commercial emoluments at. the-same time ” Sir Thomas Inskip disagreed, and said the pension was a consideration for the judicial duties he had ■ performed. . ■
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 12
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