ARCHITECT V. INSTITUTE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11800, 11 September 1916, Page 5

ARCHITECT V. INSTITUTE.

REGISTRAO DEMANDED. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. , At the Supreme Court to-day, his Honor Mr Justice Deunisibn gave his reserved judgment in the case of Hugh R. Hamilton (Mr Raymond, K.C., and Mr Salter) r. the Neir Zealand Institute of Architects (Mr Wright). This was an application by the plaintiff to compel the New Zealand Institute of Architects to register his name under the terms of the Act of 1913. Tho Institute's Board asked plaintiff to make a statutory declaration that he would not engage in any other trade, other than that of an architect, on tho ground that the Act covered the registration of architects only. His Honor held that the board had not " received, considered and determined " the plaintiff's application within the legal meaning of the words of sub-section 11 of the Act. It was also clear, he said, that the board had not considered the application on its merits, else the board would not have declined it. The board had introduced an extraneous element into the matter—the refusal of the applicant to supply something the board bad no right to require. He held, therefore, that the heard ha*' not. considered the plaintiff's application on 'its merits, and plaintiff was entitled to the relief ho asked. Judgment would be for the plaintiff, with costs on the lowest scale.