PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS
LAWYERS FAVOUR SYSTEM
By Telegraph—Press Assocla (ion
Auckland, April 23.
“As a profession we must suffer if severed from our fellowship with the English workers in law,” said Mr. J. B. Callan, of Dunedin, in the course of. an address on “The Appeal to the Privy Council” at the annual conference of the New Zealand Law Society. “Such severance would in turn be the ultimate result of severance from any court of appeal manned by English judges, a specific instance of which is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.”
The following resolution was carried: “That this conlerence, representative of the whole of the legal profession, resolves that the retention of the final right of appeal to His Majesty-in-Council is in the best interest of the Dominion of New Zealand and of the administration of justice therein.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 15
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