APPEAL COURT.
Per Presp Association Wkllington, July 26. The Appeal Court, on resuming the hearing of the Teakau Block case, intimated that without expressing any opinion as to the power of the Court to issue a writ of prohibition in case of the bias of a judge of the Native Appellate Court, they would like to hear argument on the question of whether plaintiff's statement of claim disclosed any real bias on the part of Judge Browne. Mr Bell, K.C., then addressed the Court to show that even if the allegations in the statement, which were denied, were true, tliey would not be such as to show any bias on Judge Browne's part. He also contended that even if they did disclose bias the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to interfere, the proper tribunal being the Native Appellate Court itself. Mr Skerrett, K.C., and Mr D. Tindlay, on behalf of Judges Browne and Mair then followed on the same lines. The Appeal Court reserved judgment in the Teakau Block case.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 170, 27 July 1907, Page 5
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