LAW ADMINISTRATION
INDEPENDENCE OF JUSTICE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S VIEWS "It is essential that justice shall not only be administered purely and free from external influence, but •it also must satisfy the people that it is being administered in an impartiai and independent manner," said the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, in an address on administration of justice* given to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. Mr. W. D. Armit, Commissioner of Crown Lands, was the chairman. There was no doubt that the independence of the judiciary inspired public confidence in its administration, said Mr.. Mason. The British conception of justice did not comprehend the peculiarity of the French rule of justice conditioned by x the end it served. Ihis rule was becoming the vogue in Germany, Italy and Japan. "It means that in these countries democracy has suffered an eclipse," commented the Minister. "Justice there is a farce, a mockery and a sham."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 15
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