CRITICISM OF COUNSEL
INCIDENT AT NAPIER EXPLANATION ACCEPTED [by telegraph—press association] WHANGAREI, Friday In an interview Mr. R. K. Trimmer, who was referred to in a message from Napier earlier this week as having been criticised by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, for. discourtesy to the Court, states that when for the first time the facts of the matter were fully placed before His Honor His Honor accepted Mr. Trimmer's explanation. It is explained that the castf before the Court had been inadvertently set down by the solicitor for the other side for tho February sessions when, according to the endorsement on the writ itself, action could not be heard before May 18. The result was that Mr. Trimmer and his client, who are'both many hundred miles from the scene of the action, were taken by surprise and in the end when, after considerable difficulty, they had got in touch with each other they had no alternative but to point out to the Court the irregularity in the procedure. It was the lateness at which this was done that was the subject matter of His Honor's comments.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 17
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