JUDGES’ SALARIES.
: TO THB EDITOR. Sir, —Sir' Francis Bell’s remarks on judges suggest a few comments from a mere laymui. Judges, he says, are not in the sertice of the Crown. In whose service are they? I should have liked him to expand.that idea in order tp get his viewpoint properly. If they are not in the service of the Crown, they are, at any rate, appointed by Ministers of the Crown. Snort of having divine appointment, I suppose they are as near to being independent as anybody on this planet can bo. What 1 do not underst. d, tho.igh, is why Sir Francis Bel! should bo lo sure of their independence. Ho was ai influential promoter of the Public Sendee Commissioners Act, the main arguUeut for which was that Ministers of the Crown were unfit to ho entrusted ivith the appointment of even the humbhst public servant. If that is so. why slbuld Sir Francis Bell ho prepared to eitrust them with the appointment of mr judges? The spectacle of the judges sitting tight on their salaries and refushg to share in the sacrifices of the purple on the plea that they might prejudice their successors—wind if they did ?—-is hardly calculated to enhance them in the eyes of the people as the dispensers of even-handed justice.—l an, etc., Layman. April 3L
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Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 2
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