PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 October 1930, Page 8

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS

PROBLEM EOR CONEERiENOF. COMMITTEE! BEGINS WORK. (United I’iesa Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Oct, 21. I The Sankey Committee on Empire j relations has obtained the sense ot the j various viewpoints on constitutional changes and has! begun limiting its icport. It is understood that the drafting will not he easy as it- is expected there- will he subtle points on winch South Africa and Ireland will need to bo appeased, in Ireland's case concerning the- Pivy Council, on which the Irish are finding .some, support f-or the view that it wrong to put Ireland- in the position of having to conner-legis-late to make the Privy Council decisions nugatory. The conference spokesman to-night admitted the oommittee was considering whether Privy Council appeals should! be retained, modified or abolished, . . The Sankey committee discussed again the proposals relating to the Colonial Laws Validity Act in the report on the operation of Dominion legislation. The position regarding appeals to 1 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council so far as- the United Kingdom Government is concerned still accords precisely with that at last Imperial Conference. when, as stated in the summary of those proceedings, it was “nopart of the policy of His Majesty’s Government in Great Britain that questions affecting judical appeals should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the- wishes of the part of the Empire primarily affected. “The matter is being discussed \witli a view to future practice and to find whether in the opinion of delegates the existing principle should be retained, modified ir abolished. 1