MUCH INCONVENIENCE
SHORTAGE OF JUDGES APPEAL COURT COMMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Pointed reference to the position created by the non-appointment ot a successor to Mr. Justice Adams made by Mr. .Justice llecd at the l conclusion of legal argument in a case in the Court of Appeal to-day. The court had just granted leave to a man to appeal as a pauper to the Court of Appeal from the judgment ot the Supreme Court, and on this intimation being given, Mr. C. 11. Weston, counsel for the appellant, said it was desired, if possible, to have the appeal heard at the present sitting of Die Court of Appeal. Mr Justice Reed, the presiding judge, with whom Mr. Justice Smith was associated, said: “An application for the fixture will have to lie made tit another time. It is highly improbable that a fixturo can bo made for the present sitting, because we arc short on the Judicial Bench, it is causing a great deal of inconvenience, anil possibly m some cases it may result in a denial cd justice, hut we can’s help that.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4
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186MUCH INCONVENIENCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4
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