JUDICIAL PROCESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 5

JUDICIAL PROCESS

PROTRACTED AMERICAN CAUSES BRITISH METHODS FAVOURED (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 22. The frequent protracted trials that take place in the American courts are not popular with the American legal profession, and there is a general desire in the United States for a change to something more nearly approaching the British system, said Mr William H. Attwell, a judge of the Federal Court at Dallas, Texas, who passed through Wellington by the Makura to-day. Judge Attwell intends to spend a month in Australia and some time in New Zealand studying the court methods in the two countries.

Judge Attwcll said that he was visiting Australia and New Zealand partly for holiday reasons and partly to get ideas that might led to an improvement of court procedure in the United States. There was a general feeling in America, he said, that much of the court work dragged out far too much. A great deal of time had to be spent on cases that could be disposed of much more quickly without sacrificing the interests of justice and without losing the dignity desired in court proceedings.