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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 January 1902, Page 3

Sh> Henry Strong, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and representative of the Dominion on the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council, is an irascible gentleman. There may be some excuse for this, as he is well on to his eightieth year. Woe betide any lawyer in the Supreme Court when the Chief Justice is in a bad temper. Recently, sa^s the Canadian .correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times," Sir Henry ran up against his match in the person of Dr. R. J. Wicksteed, a local barrister of ample means. The lawyer does not care a rap for the Supreme Court, because he knows he has not to make his living before their Lordships. He has therefore sworn out an information against the Chief Justice for using "coarse and threatening language and gesture, and other contumelious and injurious acts and language." It is not likely that the offended barrister will proceed any further, but in a letter to the police magistrate he gives the (Jliief Justice such a "combing down" us he will not forget for many a day. Dr. Wicksteed say.*: "I am j>repared to admit that it is a shameful thing for a Chief Justice to be hailed before a police magistrate for an unjustifiable said unprovoked common assault. .But, as Hyde wrote, 'a good judge is true in word, honest in thought, and virtuous in his deeds ; without fear of any but God, without hate of any but the -wicked.' This is applicable to a judge in his role as a man, off the judgment seat. When on the Bonch, Socrates advises him thus : 'Four things belong to a judge : to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to give judgment without partiality.' Coke, in his institute, gives almost the same advice: 'A judge should have two salts: the salt of wisdom, lest he be insipid ; and the salt of conscience, lest he be devilish.' " There is an interesting story in connection with the alleged assault. Dr. Wicksteed is a somewhat eccentric individual. His father left him a lot of money a few years ago, and since then he has been spending several months in England. He has got the idea that the Canadian law courts are not sufficiently dignified ; that the judges and barristers should wear wigs in court, as they do in the Old Country. It was Dr. Wicksteed's desire to make a motion in court in favour of the adoption of this practice, and the fact of his being peremptorily shut off by the Chief Justice, that led to the subsequent altercation in the corridor of the court-room.

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