PRACTICE IN THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 602, 17 September 1853, Page 3

PRACTICE IN THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sir —ln a late number of your journal I saw a letter signed by a person who calls him* self a Respector of Rights, (but who, if I am not much mistaken, is also a J. P.), in which he comments upon the letter of "J. P.," and sums up by suggesting what he consider* would be two improvements in the Court, vis., first, that costs of Court should only bo exacted in extreme cases; and secondly, that the two gentlemen who usually appear as advocates in the Court, should be prepared to support their legal arguments by references, after the custom of the old country. Now, with regard to the fiist alteration, the allowance of costs I believe rests with the Magistrates; and, as to the second alteration, I would suggest, that the gentlemen who administer the law should be acquainted with it, and then they would not require any references, and it would not be necessary for the parties to go to the expense of having an advocate to inform the Court what the law is. I am, &c, P.J. .