NEW KING'S COUNSEL

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 8

NEW KING'S COUNSEL

HR J. B. CALLAN AN APPOINTEE [Ps» United Press Association. | WELLINGTON, March 10. It is announced that Messrs A Hj Johnston© (Auckland), J. B. Callan, (Dunedin), and C. H. Weston (Wellington) have been appointed King’s Counsel. i ' Mr John Bartholomew Callan, who was born in Dunedin in 1882, was educated at the Christian Brothers’ School and the Otago University, taking his LL.B degree in 1906. Until his recent departure for Wellington he" was lecturer in torts and dean of the lawfaculty of the Otago University. Hei is a member of the Council of Legal Education, and was formerly president of the Otago Law Society. He served in the New Zealand Expeditionary! Forces as a captain of tho 3rd Battalion, N.Z.R.B. Mr Alexander Howat Johnstone was born at Milton, and was educated at the Tokomairiro District High School and Victoria College. .He took hia B.A. degree in 1903 and his LL.B degree two years later. For some years he practised in New Plfmouth, where he occupied the office of president of the Taranaki Law Society. He was also a member of tho New Plymouth Borough Council and the High Schools’! Board. He had been president of the Auckland District Law Society, and is a member of the council of the New Zealand Law Society and the Council of Legal Education. Mr Claude Horace Weston was born' in Hokitika in 1879, and was educated at Christ’s College and Canterbury College taking his LL.B degree in 1903.He had commenced practising at New; Plymouth in the previous year. Ho was Crown solicitor there until 1931,' when he resigned to take up a practice in Auckland; Quite recently he transferred to Wellington. He served witlf the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces at the Great War as a lieutenantcolonel in the Wellington Regiment.and received the D.S.O. ‘ NEW K.C.S RECEIVE PATENTS OF OFFICE [Per United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, March 12. . Prior to making fixtures this morning, the Court of Appeal called'to the inner bar as King’s Counsel Messrs A.H. Johnstone, J. B. Callan, and C. H.Weston. The ceremony consisted of each appointee reading the customary formal declaration, after which Messrs Johnstone, Callan, and Weston took their seats in the court in the space reserved for King’s Counsel, and werai handed their patents of office.