APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 July 1907, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

Per Press Association. WellingtoD, July 28. The Apepal Court, resuming the bearing of the Te Akau Block case, intimated that, without expressing any opinion as to the power of the Court to issue a writ of ptofiibltion in a ease of bias on the part of a Judge of the Native Appellate Court, they would like to hear argument on the question whether the plaintiff's statement of claim disolosed any real bias on the part of Judge Biown.

Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., addressed the Court to show that even if the allegation in the statement (which were denied) were true, they would not be such as to shown any bias on Judge Brown's part. He also contended that, even if they did not disclose bias, the Supreme Court lul l no jurisdiction to interfere, the proper tribunal being the Native Ap- . pcllnle Court itself. Mr C. P. Skerrott, K.C., and Dr * Findlay, on behalf of Judges Brown and Mair followed on the same lines. The Court reserved judgment. In the Te Akau case, in the Appeal, Mr Morison. and Mr dressed tin. Court bit . plaintiffs, contending, (1) that thesSlj preme Court had jurisdiction to prohlbiil the Native Appellate Court, on the ground I of bias, and (2) that the circumstances v alleged in the statement of claim dis- > closed reasonable likelihood of unconscious bias on the part of Judge Brown, such ns would justify the 'lupreme Court in interfering. Mr Skerrott replied, and the Court reserved judgment, ,