JUDGE STANDS TRIAL.
■ ANCIENT SCOTTISH CUSTOM. The custom which for hundreds of years has prevailed in the Scottish courts of making a. new law lord “ pass his trail ” has just been enacted at Edinburgh. Lord Mackay, the new judge, entered the court before the judges of the Supreme Division while a great newspaper case involving £1,000,000 was in progress. The case was stopped, aud the array of counsel had to make way for two junior counsel, who proceeded to argue whether a litigant was entitled to be placed upon the paupers’ roll and get his legal action tried without costa. This case lasted for nearly an hour then Lord Mackay gave judgment. The other judges said they would consider his judgment satisfactory, and called him to the Bench.
After shaking hands with the 12 judges Lord eMackay bowed to the court and bowed to the Bar, and the ceremony came to an end.
A judge on trial has never yet failed to pass.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20522, 25 September 1928, Page 15
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