LIBERTY OF INDIVIDUAL
(in ms .n:\i.ois kmgard Hamilton, Oct 14 •For the lirst time in my lengthy : experience a sitting of the Court of Appeal and the quarterly sittings of the supreme Court have clashed." said I the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Myers, at the opening of the Hamilton Supreme I Court to-dav His Honour said three Judges were engaged in a lengthy case in the Court of Appeal at Wellington and were not able to preside at the Ordinary quarterly sittings of the Supreme Court, all of which were gaol delivery sessions His Honour said the importance of gaol delivery was that rio man should be kept in peril of his liberty for a single avoidable hour That was a fundamental and traditional principle ’of British justice. Although some of the civil business might have to be ' postponed, all the criminal business would be dealt with according to died ill c. notwithstanding the difficulties that had arisen. Concluding, Sir Michael said he thought one would look in vain in the countries of the aggressor nations, or anyv.here outside Ihe English-speaking j democracies, for such a jealous regard ! inr the liberty of the individual.- P A
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 8
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