JUSTICE GRANTHAM.
.STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH. GOVERNMENT WfLL NOT TAKE ACTION. PUBLIC CONDEMNATION, 'By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 2, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Ist March. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, said that in view of the oniversal public condemnation of recent remarks by Sir William Grantham, a Judge of {lie High Court of Justice, the Government did not propose- to take th© extreme step of presenting an address to the Crown for the judge's removal. [Mr. Justice Grantham created a sensation at the Liverpool Assizes last month by repudiating what he described as a charge of political partisanship arising out of his decision in. the Yarmouth election petition case in 1906. He said that since then scarcely a week had passed without threatening and insulting letters being received by him. He denied all partisanship, and was astonished at the chargs. Later in the day, Sir William Grantham, in sentencing a Canadian criminal, said : "Prisoner, this is the sort of reciprocity Canada haa for England — sending criminals here to be punished. In other matters she seeks reciprocity with the United States."]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 51, 2 March 1911, Page 7
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187JUSTICE GRANTHAM. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 51, 2 March 1911, Page 7
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