SPEAKER AND MEMBER.
MR. WILLIS'S TROUBLES. • I . • • ' • AN APPEAL DISMISSED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright (Received April 19, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, April 19. The High Court has dealt : with the casa of Mr. Perry, M.L.A., v. Mr. Speaker Willis, arising out of the disorderly scenes in the Legislative Assembly in Sept-ember last, when Mr. , Perry, after leaving the House, was brought back by the Speaker's orders, and admonished. Mr. Perry brought an action against the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms for £1000, damages for assault. In a demurrer action that followed, the Supreme Court ruled that the Speaker had no power to deal with the member when once he had left the House. Mr. Willis appealed to the High Court, which has unanimously dismissed the appeal. The Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, said that the Speaker had no more power over a member outside the House than over any other person. A disorderly person could be removed, but it was a different thing to bring a member , back to the Chamber to make an example ,of him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 7
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