VACANT JUDGESHIP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 229, 28 September 1933, Page 6

VACANT JUDGESHIP

COMMENT FROM BENCH JUSTICE MAY BE DENIED [ Per Freua Association. ] WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. About the beginning ot August when Mr. Justice Adams retired from the Judiciary, it was stated that a hueeessor would not be appointed until after the return of the Prime Minister from the World Economic and Monetary Conference. Mr. Forbes has been back in Nw Zealand for more than a week, but so far no announcement of the appointment of a new Judge has been made. Pointed reference to the position created by the uon appointmeut of a successor to Mr. Justice Adams was made by Mr. Justice Reed at the conclusion of legal argument in a case in the Court of Appeal to-day. The Court had just granted leave to a man to appeal as a pauper to the Court of Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, and, on this intimation being given, Mr. C. H. Weston, counsel for the appellant, said it was desired, if possible, to have the appeal beard at. the present sitting of the Court of Appeal. Mr. Justice Reed, the presiding Judge, with whom Mr. Justice McGregor and Mr. Justice Smith were associated, said that an application for a fixture would have to be made at another time. “It is highly improbable that a fix lure can be made for the present sitting,” added His Honour, “because we are short on the Judicial Bench. It is causing a great deal of inconvenience, and possibly in some cases it may result in a denial of justice, but we can’t help that.”