SPEAKER WILLIS,
EXEEDING HIS POWERS. • HIGH COURT DISMISSES APPEAL. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrlshfc. SYDNEY, 19th April. The High Court dealt to-day with the case of Perry versus Willis, Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly, arising out of the scenes in the Assembly in September, when Mr. Perry, member for Richmond, after leaving the House, was brought back by the Speaker's orders, and admonished. Mr. Perry brought an action against the Speaker and the Sergeant-at-Arms for £1000 damages for assault. In a demurer action which followed the Supreme Court ruled that the Speaker had no power to deal with a member once he had left the House. Mr. Willis appealed to the High Court, which has now unanimously dismissed the appeal. Tha Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, said the Speaker had no more power over a member outside the House than over any other person. A disorderly person could be removed, but it was a different thing to bring him back to the Chamber to make an example of him.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 5
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