THE WORLD COURT
POSITION OF DOMINION JUDGES Frets Association—By Tshtgraph—Copyright. GENEVA, March 19. (Received March 20, at 10 a.m.) The Committee of Jurists has not reached an agreement regarding Sir Cecil Hurst’s suggestion that dominion judges should bo entitled to sit on Hie World Court, it expressed the opinion that flic desired interpretation exceeded its mandate.—Australian Press Association.
[Sir Cecil Hurst and Air Eliliu Root are preparing a report for submission to the League Council in June regarding Hie entrance of the United States into the World Court.. Sir Cecil Hurst suggested that judges belonging to the nationality of each disputant should lie present on the court. He pointed out Hint several autonomous British dominions with separate memberships in the Legane were rapidly developing their own national citizenship. He expressed the opinion that if a case involving Canada, for instance, fame before the court, a Canadian judge should not ho prevented from sitting on the Pencil because there was an Englishman on Iho court.j
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Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 8
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