CHANGES IN CODE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 January 1939, Page 4

CHANGES IN CODE

•: CIVIL PROCEDURE L j ij SUPREME COURT ACTIONS '! Changes in ilia Code of Ci\il Procedure ? oi the Supreme Court have been agreed ? to by the Rules Committee and will short- ? Ij be submitted to the Executive Council, according to an announcement made by C the Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. f Mason) yesterday . 1 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 relat--1 el questions should be disposed of in the 3 one action. At present, where more than one party is concerned, it is possible for t a question to be determined in one way by f a jury in an action between the first two j j parties, but. determined in a different and inconsistent way by the second f and third parties. It is to prevent this state of affairs occurring in future that 2 certain of the new rules are devised. s Asecond thing the new rule sdo is to . comply with undertakings given in a f number of conventions made with other I countries by making provision for cases _ where documents are required to be served or evidence taken in one country s for use in relation to proceedings in another country. A third matter provided for * is the exemption of £SO worth of furniture fiom seizure to satisfy Supreme Court. 1 judgineuts.