VOTING ANOMALIES
■REFORMATIVE INQUIRY,
LORD HEWART PARTICIPATING.
(British Official 'Wireless.) (Received 9.a.m.) RUGBY, August 17,
The Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart, has accepted nomination by Mr Lloyd George as one of the Liberal representatives on a body which is to inquire into the question of electoral .reform.
The selection of the Chief Justice for an inquiry, of (this nature appears to create an interesting precedent. When the Marquess of Reading was Chief Justice he undertook a special mission to the United States during the war. How r ever, the pending threepainty inquiry into electoral reform differs from an Ambassadorial function such as Lord Reading exercised in America.
The Present 'Chief Justice, who sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal from 1918 to .1922, and was in that period Attorney-General and 1 a Cabinet (Minister, ma(Io no secret of his opposition to' the then prevalent view that the holder of the position of Chief Justice should be aloof from State affairs.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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