JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 226, 30 December 1920, Page 3

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.

FUELING- IN DOMINIONS.

. t ■' LQNJj)ON,, Oct. 26. Lord Cave, a member df 1 the Judicia. .Committee of the , Brim Council, has >e.; -■'viSllmg the principal Canadian centies am. Now York, aiid,'drom,a legal point of view Tio' has' brought back a good* many impns .mods-,, Kfter having been in clbse touch with •leading lawyers. He p67 a frequcm speaker,/too, at. lunphem clubs, which forn. a marked feature in Canaduuv difo. Every where, ho Says, he, was 'impressed by tin strong i affection manifested for the OL Goiiritik arid; by. the Imperial, spirit thai prevails in Canada. ‘ Speaking to the Times representative o. the place which the Judicial . Committee ol the Privy Council has in.the legal systeitj, of thef Dominions,: Lord that ir Canada dho feeling towards the Lommittc.wa, onl the whole one of complete apprqva \ very l distinguished lawyer qpnncctcd wilt bhfarit) recently made a, spcecjlr advocatinf Ofo restriction of appeals to ihq,Pnvy Conn cil, blit generally opinion took, the. opposih ■View'/ “The Committee is regarded as > link with the; Dominions, «J\l Canada are impressed by, the I fact th.lt i. •IVilio tight of any British s|ib|Mt in any Cab of the Empiwy who has » grievance U carry that grievance to tlio Hoot. ot tin Thfone; • It is exactly these,.petitions. 01 ‘which the Committee lodes of law are involved. In One case tu Hindu lor Mohammedan law ifian question, in ano her a decision must .-be give,, 01, Roman I Dutch law, and in a third the 01. French law'os administered in Quebec i ■cbftcoriikd; Canttdfdris are ' also ' imf.res.se. hv a natter not generally known. A ®, tinguisl ed > Canadian- Judge constantly - Sit. a* * member of the Judicial Committee am adjudicates not only- on appeals Iron Canada) bat on others from every part o tlie’/Knipiro. CYnada, therefore, takes it. full share in the decisions of the ultimat. r ' n the imporfdneo' of diCommittee is not < always- realised -in Un ddiintrvl The Times-commonfs! In-..tin n-iiet. room, just*off; AYhifehitllv where i =iVi there speaks,' fhrriughbiit yelr, .thvoice ot the British system ofi laws, yvhicl. dries not iifaposri a martinet imijpjrnpty upo its people,; but. gives Us sanction ,1? then traditional: dogislalion-ofton very ; pld-„ and daily moulds it to conformity wdl modern ineods. That. *. jhe renl: TOW of the work of tho Judicial Cornihitleo o the Prillv Council, o legal importance whjc) • wo shoiiia/regret to ’• see ; wrested into r political! seipftblanco that- itehas.jjojv and,, ’k our judgriiem, should not have. ■ ,Tho P'i •Council f itself- may. before 10ng,,, .come, intr the closest political touch with tho Domm ion? if, as seems probable, the care of then relation'll with ' tliis' criVintry; should' be re moved from tho Oplonul Ofhco # jnd phwc in the clnirge of,the Lord/Presdent of the Council. Lord Cave, wo - thibkJdoes no veto •ouite high onoiieh the soptiment ol r.mSositUn to- the right of apppW ~tr• the jildi'icin'l Committee which itafvjH s, if<^ ' id Canada, at lensfiri'someothor/ppminions. ft is -h tiatnva) sentiment, ,wb'ch hj however ; Via hone will .'liof-grbvfi and'if 1 jpythmB■ i?

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