NEW ZEALANDERS HAVE SET HIGH STANDARD IN APPEAL CASES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18901, 28 October 1929, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS HAVE SET HIGH STANDARD IN APPEAL CASES.

“The Prime Minister of New Zealand has officially announced that this Dominion has no intention of altering the present position, maintaining the right of appeal to the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council” (comments the English “Law Journal”). “The news is good hearing, for, if the appeals from New Zealand have during the past few years been infrequent and rare, a somewhat difficult situation of the longer past (the blame for which was. in the main, at the home end) was very happily cleared up during the course of a series of appeals heard three or four years ago, and a very happy relationship was then established between the far-removed jurisdictions. The present Chief Justice (Mr M. Myers, K.C.) as he formerly was, came over to argue in all five appeals; and, save for a small loss in that in which he appeared for the respondent, and in which he for the most part held the judgment, he succeeded ixi them all. Another member of the New Zealand Bar, Mr M. Gresson, also came to this country (no mean journey!), as well to make our acquaintance as to argue in the appeals. Both received an enviable ovation at their Lordships’ Bar, and among the profession; and in both

cases, the impression which they took away, though said by them to be of the happiest, could be no happier than the impression they left behind. From an Imperial point of view, generally and for us particularly, it is a very fortunate thing that between us and almost our most distant outpost, a regard as strong and as affectionate should prevail as exists anywhere in the length and breadth of the whole English-speaking areas of the world.”