TASK FOR WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 277, 27 November 1935, Page 11

TASK FOR WOMEN

BRITISH LAW REFORM WIT OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE? Lord Hewart, Britain’s Lord Chief Justice, humorously suggested the setting up of a select •committee of business women to consider law reforms, recently. He was speaking at an informal luncheon of members of the Law Society, who were the guests of Lord Blanesburgh at Winchlcsea, Sussex, during an excursion followdng the provincial meeting of the society at Hastings. Referring to discussions at the meeting, Lord Hewart said: “I gather that many of you are of the opinion that the administration—l will not say justice hut of law —requires a complete overhaul, and some have a feeling that we do not have enough enquiries or committees. “I suggest for your (consideration that the next time you should have, not a committtee of first-class business men, but a select committee —a really select committee—of first-class business women for the complete overhaul of the adminstrution of the law in Britain. When that body is appointed—and of course it will he able to administer as many oaths as it thinks fit—l hope it will not too easily adopt the suggestions that the Court, of Appeal and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division should be abolished. “It is said that if these proposal* were adopted at least nine judges would be available, without further expense, to do the ordinary work of the Law Courts, and that we might have these nine judges sitting snx days a week, from ton in the morning until six in the evening, during August, and September, and that the reproach of the long vacation be wholly taken away. ’ ’