HIGH LEGAL POSITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 7

HIGH LEGAL POSITIONS

SAURIES AND PENSIONS Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, Nov-ember 20. (Received November 21, at 1.15 pan.) In the House of' Commons Sir Thomas luskip (Attorney-General) moved the appointment of two additional members of fho Judicial Comof Hie Privy Council, at a salary v' ‘HT and a oem-iou of £I,OOO, and an additional Judge of the Appeal (.min. ;ii a salary ol £6,000 and a pension of £3,750. Ho pointed out that Lord Haldane had shortened bis life through overwork on (he Judicial Committee. Sir 11. Slesser asked if Lord Birkenhead would claim from the Lord Chancellor tho pension of £5,000, seeing that ho did not propose to servo on the Judicial Committee. Sir Thomas Inskip replied that Lord Birkenhead had informed him that ho would shortly undertake new employment with substantial emoluments. He proposed to claim tho pension only for the transition period. Nevertheless, Lord Birkenhead’s view was that the pension was for past and not for present legal services. , T Sir liamar Greenwood said tho Judicial Committee was the strongest link in fho Empire chain, and needed to be strengthened- Tho Canadian view was that wo ought not to depend on aged jurists wlm, however eminent in (heir prime, no longer impressed litigants and counsel from Ihe dominions and colonics. , , , Mr Wedgewood Bonn asked how manv dirertorships Lord Birkenhead would need before relinquishing his pension. Could he re-claim his pension if his commercial ventures came to nothing? ~ Sir Thomas luskip: “Certainty. Tho resolution was carried without a division Australian Dross Association -United Service.