NEW ZEALAND LAW

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND LAW

Treaty With United States LEGAL PROFESSION APPROVES (N.Z.P.A? WELLINGTON, April 9. “I would think that this arrangement would be approved of, if not welcomed, by the legal profession throughout New Zealand,” said the president of the New Zealand Law Society, Mr H. F. O’Leary, when asked how the legal profession in this country viewed the treaty between the United States and the New Zealand Government. “We do know,” he continued, “that a similar arrangement has operated in Great Britain for some time, and, as far as we know, it has worked smoothly and satisfactorily. It is correct to say that it is a radical departure from the principle which up to this time has always operated in British countries, namely, that offences coming within their jurisdiction should be dealt with in local Courts, but it is a feature of British common law that it is not static. It changes and it much change with differing circumstances and with modern requirements. “The circumstances existing in New Zealand at the present time require change,” Mr O’Leary concluded, “and it seems to me that what has been arranged is necessary to meet the circumstances as they exist to-day. I would think that the arrangement would work satisfactorily as it has in Great Britain.”