SUPREME COURT PROCEDURE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 103, 25 January 1939, Page 13

SUPREME COURT PROCEDURE

Change In Rules Proposed

Changes in the Code of Civil Procedure of the Supreme Court have been agreed to by the Rules Committee and will shortly be submitted to the Executive Council, according to am announcement made by the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Mason, yesterday. One of tire main objects of the new rules is to secure better provision for third party procedure, that is to say, to secure that so far as possible all related questions should be disposed of in the one action. At present, where more than one party is concerned, it is possible for a question to be determined in one way by a jury iu an action between the first two parties, but determined in a different and inconsistent way by a second jury in an action between the second and third parties. It is to prevent this state of affairs occurring in future that certain of the new rules are devised.

A second thing the new rules do is to comply with undertakings given in a number of conventions made with other countries by making provision for cases where documents are required to be served or evidence taken in one country for use iu relation to proceedings in another country. A third matter provided for Is the exemption of £5O worth of furniture from seizure lo satisfy .Supreme Court judgments.