APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 26 July 1907, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

TE AKAU NATIVE LAND CASE.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 26. The Appeal Court, resuming the hearing of the Te Akau Block case, intimated that, without expressing any opinion as to the power of the Court to issue a writ of prohibition in a case ofr 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 disclosed any real bias on the part of Judge Brown.

Mr & D* Bell^ K.C., addressed the Court to show that even if the allegations in the statement (which were denied) were true, they would not be such as to show any bjas on Judge Brown's part. ' He also contended that, even if they did disclose- bias, the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to interfere, the proper tribunal being the Native Appellate Court itself. Mr C. P. Skerrett ,X.C, and Dr. Findlay, on behalaf of Judges Brown and Mair, followed on the same lines. •» The Court reserved judgment.