'TWEEN BENCH AND BAR.
Conflicts between the Bench and Bar are, happily, very rare in England, but they would inevitably become common if judges grew accustomed to indulge in irrelevant comments upon the evidence while cases were proceeding. With the merits of the case in which Mr Justice Ridley recently came into collision with the counsel for the defendant we are not concerned. What we desire to point out is a strange departure from the traditions of the Bench. One of the defendant's witnesses,' while under examination, volunteered a statement as brief as it was legitimate, whereupon Mr Justice Ridlev said: "It is very kind of yon to make a statement which you were not asked for." The defendant's counsel at once made a protest against this interruption, which was calculated to prejudice' his client's case. The credibility of the witness was a matter entirely for the jury, and Mr Justice Ridley's statement was even more gratnitous than that which he rebuked.—'Law Journal.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11605, 19 July 1901, Page 8
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