NEW RULES DEVISED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20714, 26 January 1939, Page 15

NEW RULES DEVISED

SUPREME COURT CASES THIRD PARTY PROCEDURE (>oec:3l io Times) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Changes in the Code of Civil Procedure of the Supreme Court have been agreed to by the Rules Committee and will shortly he s-uhinil'ed to the Exeeutiv. Council, according to an announcement made by the \ttorne>General, the Hon. li. G. R. Mason. One of the main objects of the new rules is to secure better provision for

third party procedure, that is to say, to secure that so far as possible all related questions should bo disposed of in the one action. At present, where more than one party is concerned, it is possible for a question t<* be determined in one way by a jury in an action between the first two parties, but determined in a different and inconsistent way by a jury in an action between the second «ud third partier*. It is to prevent this state M j affairs occurring in future that certain of the new rules are devised.

A second thing the new rules do is to comply with undertakings given In a number of conventions made with other countries by making provision for cases where documents are required to be served or evidence taken on one country for use In relation to proceedings in another country. A third matter provided for is the exemption ~l £:,o worth of furniture from seizure to *a!isf> Supreme Court judgments.