AUSTRALIAN ART CONTROVERSY
APPEAL TO HIGHER COURT QUASHED DEVOID OF MERIT SYDNEY. March 3. Instructions have been issued by the Crown to discontinue the appeal to the High Court against last year's Archibald Prae bein'g awarded 'to Mr William Dobell for his portrait of Mr Joshua Smith. The appeal to the High Court to have the award set aside was launched after the unsuccessful com■plaint'of Miss Mary Edwards and Mr Joseph Wolenski in equity jurisdiction. The letter to the solicitors for 'Miss Edwards and Mr Wolenski from the Under-Secretary of Justice stated that the Solicitor-General had Conned the opinion that the appeal did not give rise to any question of general public importance and was devoid of merit. Discontinuance of the appeal will prevent Miss Edwards and Mr Wolenski from taking any steps which might enable them to recover costs arising out of the equity case. Mr Wolenski said that as the result of "political intervention," he and Miss Edwards had been denied the ordinary- viglit ol persons to test justice by an appeal.
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Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 7
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