EMPIRE COURT OF APPEAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3286, 3 August 1911, Page 5

EMPIRE COURT OF APPEAL.

DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF LORDS

SEQUEL TO IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION BILL.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] (Received August 2, 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 2. The Agricultural Credit Bill to secure capital for small agriculturists and the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, strengthening the Court in the directions agreed to at the Imperial Conference, have been read a second time in the House of Lords. Lord Haldane said the problem of how to place the Appellate jurisdiction in the Empire would never adequately be solved until there was a real supreme Court of Appeal for the Empire. Speakers in recent debates had expressed the view that there was no reason why the Law Lords should sit in that House, hut until the constitution was dealt with a convenient opportunity would not be offered for separation. Meantime they were content to lay the foundation of what would virtually be a single court for the whole Empire. Lord Courtney declared' that while dlue deference must be paid to the conclusions of the Conference, he was not persuaded that by incurring unnecessary expenditure in appointing two extra judges they had solved the colonial problem. The Marquis of Salisbury stated that the important advice of the Conference should he followed. He complimented the Government on its early action.