PROPOSED JUDICIAL BEFORMS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11966, 20 June 1907, Page 4

PROPOSED JUDICIAL BEFORMS

Dunedin, June J9. A prominent member of the legal profession, when seen In regard to the Attorney-General's proposal, wbich might mean the abolition of the District Courts and a provision for a more continuous Uourt of said he took it that Dr. Findlay's idea was probably to make Wellington the headquarters of the Judges who would reside there. One Judge, say, would go on circuit in the North Island and another on circuit in the South Islnnd; following very- much on the lines of the custom in England, and the other Judges would remain in Wellington, and could take Court work there and also the Court of Appeal. If this was the intention of the Attorney-General, it would mean that many of the Colo y's leading advocates would have to reside in Wellington and follow the Judges on circuit.