MR. JELLICOE AND THE JUDGES

Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 19

MR. JELLICOE AND THE JUDGES

(From: Our Own CoitßEsroxDEXT.) WELLINGTON, May 31

Mr Jellicoe, the Wellington solicitor who was the other day suspended by the Appeal Court judges, addressed a packed meeting in the Opera House tc-night. The proceedings were noisy, and r.t times rowdy. The great majority of those present had evidently come for an evening's amusement, and they got it. Mr Jellicoe attacked the administration of justice by certain of the judges, but spoke in high terms of praise of Sir J. Prendcrga«t, tire late Justice Richmond, and Mr Justice Williams. He strongly advocated the appointment of Mi 1 Justice Williams as Chief Justice, and the appointment of Dr Pennefather as judge of the Supreme Court at Dunedin. At the conclusion of the address three cheers were given for Mr Jellicoe, who had a considerable following present. A resolution to the effect that reasonable suspicion of bias or prejudice on the part of a judge, when proved, should be a disqualification, was declared carried unanimously, though a great majority of those present did not vote. Mr Jellicoe then proposed that the time has now arrived when the Government should take hteps to remove Mr Justice Edwards from Wellington. This was put amid a running fire of personal remarks, and carried amid great cheering.