JUDGE'S PROTEST
ADJOURNMENT OF CASE COUNSEL ON MILITARY SERVICE ~ ■■ # [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Monday "One has to accept these difficulties arising in times like the present, but I do think I am entitled to a mild protest for the first time since I have been on the Bench, for I have never complained before about adjournments," said Mr. Justice o'Regan in the Compensation Court to-day when a case in which Mr. W. H. Cunningham was to have appeared had to be adjourned because counsel had been called up for military service at short notice. "Personally I have done my level best not to keep anyone waiting," His Honor said. have worked every Saturday since 1 have been in Wellington preparing judgments in order to keep the work in hand. I was here this morning at 10 o'clock to take this case and after three-quarters of an hour I am told it is impossible to go on. It is not a very desirable state of affairs and I think I am entitled to protest against it with a view to preventing a recurrence."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23721, 30 July 1940, Page 8
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