New Civil Procedure For Supreme Court

Northern Advocate, 26 January 1939, Page 4

New Civil Procedure For Supreme Court

[Special to “Ntofrthern Advocate*! WELLINGTON, This Day. According to an announcement made by the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, changes in the Code of Civil Procedure of the Supreme Court have been agreed to by the Rules Committee, and will shortly be submitted to the Executive Council. One of the main objects of the new rules is to secure better provision for third party procedure; that is to say, to secure that so far as possible, all related questions should be disposed of in the One action. At present, where more than one party is concerned, it is possible for a question to be determined in one way by a jury in an. action between two parties, but determined in a different and inconsistent way by a second jury, in an action between the second and third parties. It is to prevent this state of affairs occurring in future that cexiain of the new rules are devised. Proceedings Overseas. A second thing the new rules do is to comply with undertakings given in a number of conventions made with other countries by making provision for cases where documents are required to be served, or evidence taken in one country, for use in relation to proceedings in another country. A third matter provided for is the exemption of £SO worth of furniture from seizure to satisfy Supreme Court judgments.