JUDICIAL HUMOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 2

JUDICIAL HUMOR

DINNER TO JUDGES '«•>'*' f XO \, J >*. ’j .. LORD HE WART’S QUIPS LONDON, June 6. Lord Hewart,'the Lord Chief Justice, had amusing things to say on the subject of legal reforms when lie spoke at the Lord Mayor’s annual dinner to the Hinges at the Mansion House last night. “j, gather.”, im sain, “that there vs a sohetne on fooj, to make judges retire at the age of 52, which means, on flic theory of relativity, that most of us would retire before appointment. The mere mention of the matter, l am told, lias caused great alarm among most deserving classes of live community—bishops,..archbishops, Ministers of the Crown, Prime Ministers, and the less successful .type of Nonconformist minister. (Laughter, i “I cannot' help thinking that the proposal springs from-a ton hasty general isation with- the. Civil Service. A judge has-"his ■ lmib cut * regularly, and his salary cut irregularly, hut in other respects Tie differs profoundly from the civil servant, who starts very young anfi is able t,n retire at- 60. “Fortified by your enthusiasm, how. c'Oer, we Shall go on. and 'on, and up, arid up, and up, until at length a case will be' tried the day before the writ has been issued “ The Lord Mayor, proposing the toast of “His Majesty's Judges,” told a good story. Some time ago, tie said, a member of the legal profession from another country had been spending a day at the Law Courts in the Strand. On leaving he said to an usher, “You don’t lose much time over your business in these cobrts.” • “No, sir.” agreed the usher, “their lordships dispense with justice very quickly here.” -