PUBLIC OPINION
MINISTERIAL RE-ARRANGEMENTS (To the Editor, “N.Z. Times.”) Sir, —It would seem that the practice of placing additional portfolios in the hands of the Attorney-General is being continued, the new Attorney-General being the holder of the office of Minister for Justice. Eminent authority speaks thus: ‘ Ihe Attorney-General represents the Crown in the courts in all matters in which rights of a public character come into question, and is therefore the representative and legal adviser of all public departments which have capacity to sue and he sued, as well as of departments which have no such capacity.” If the Attorney-General is concerned in administration,, his natural bias will naturally be towards “saving the face” of his department. How can he then, as adviser of the Crown and the guardian of the rights of the public, be expected to advise dispassionately when redress is sought against some alleged shortcoming on the part of one of his subordinates in his administrative department? —I am, etc., A CONSERVATIVE.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 6
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