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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1941
NEW PUISNE JUDGE GIVES HINT
TO SOLICITORS
WRITTEN JUDGMENT was given this morning by His Honour, Mr. Justice P. E. F. Cressall in the Summary court in the case in which Kwan Hoi-chaw, of 58, Bonham Strand West, claimed the return of $1,000 as money lent on various dates to Cheung Tat-chai, dentist, of No. 26, Des Voeux Road Central.
Mr. H. L. Kwan, of Wilkinson The plaintiff, however, on his and Grist, appeared for Plaintiff, own showing appears to be one and Mr. A el Arçuili, for Defend- of these philanthropists one reads about in books but seldom meets, who lends money 14 dentist friends through his wife, simply because he and his family happen to be his professional clients.
ant.
In his judgment Mr. Cressall suid:
In this case the plaintiff claims The sum of $1,000, which he al- leges was lent by him to defen dant.
The statement of claim worded as follow:
The defendant does not deny that the plaintiff parted with this is cutisiderable sum but asserts that the wife gave it all to Cheung chee-wing in connection with a business he (Cheung Chee-wing) wonde, saling on behalf of the platiti.
The plaintiff's claim against the defendant is for the Sun of $1,000 for money lent to the de- fendant by the plaintiff.
Purticulars..
27th February, 1940 10
tney Jerat
8th March, 1940
to
money enl
29th March. 1940
to
money ent
$ 200.00
$ 600.00
1.
ecessary to comment urther on the evidence as il IS bandantly elear to me that the real truth of the transaction has been deliberately hidden by both sudes. All I will say is that if a $ 200.00 man uses his wife as the medium of conveying loans to another $1,000.00 Iman he should not complain if It appears that on the all-over (as the defendant has asserted on day, the defendant, th ugh his bath)
other people write letters solicitor, verbally denied Hability Insinuating that the alleged bor- in general ferms, and the case rower has been guilty of unfaith- was accordingly listed for hear- ful conduct with the lady. ing without a statement of de- fence being lied.
Time And Energy Now, while
it is Indisputable that in suminary trials it is fre- quently unnecessary to insist on a written defence, the fact re- mains that when a defence is for- mally fled considerable judicial time and energy is saved, for the Court is placed in the position of being able to appreciate, and judi- cially analyse the delence relied
Hiding Facts
In order to prove his clain the plaintiff must satisfy me that the money in question lent to the defendant.
was actually This he has failed to do, for on the evi- dence as it stands, I cannot find as a fact that the defendant re- ceived the money from the wife. I was not impressed by her de- meanour in the witness box and formed the definite
£1-A-MINUTE
TWIN FILM STARS AGED TEN WEEKS
ners
Youngest wage-ear- in the United States are the Holly- wood
twins, Judith and Dianne Fleet- wood, aged ten weeks.
They
£1 earn minute for playing the part of an infant daughter with Cary Grant and Irene Dun- ne in the filming of "Penny Serenade.'
a
The twins are iden- tical, so when one gets tired the other takes her place before the
camera.
HOME GUARD'S COURAGE
An outstanding exam-
that she was hiding material facts under air bombardment conclusion ple of sustained courage
on, before the general evidence from the Court.
actually tendered; a plea
is
of non-indebtedness in most cases ly unimpressed by the defendant's Volunteer W. I. Whitlock, On the other hand I was equal-is that of Home Guard conveys nothing to the Judge who explanation as to why he, a dent-
the night of On
October 19,
is called upon to hear and deter- ist, should take such a keen in who has been awarded mine claims, for the reason that terest in the affairs of an there may arise several factors trical business of another person,
elec- the George Medal, it was during the trial,
which, one by of which he had no knowledge.
announced last night. one, or collectively, frequently in-
In all the circumstances there- troduce new legal elements and
fore I propose to enter u non- problems which cannot be fore- suit and to make no order as to 1940, a building received two di- seen by merely looking at the statement of claim.
Thus it was that I enquired from the solicitor for the defen- dant why he had not fled statement of defence notwith- standing the fact that no order had been made. I make these; preliminary remarks for as this is the first contested case I have had to deal with since assuming my duties, I feel that in fairness to the profession I should let them know that I hold very strong views on the necessity of solicitors filing short and concise statements of defence in any contested actions they are called upon to defend. Conversely, it is
costs since. as I have already rect hits from high explosive was on Home said. neither side has told me "the bombs. Whitlock truth, the whole truth and noth- Guard duty and as a result of the ing but the truth."
POOLING
SCIENTIFIC
ADVANCES
my considered view that solici- Replying to a Commons! tors who are instructed to issue
writs should give as much re-
leva & information as is possible
in the statement of claim.
explosions sustained severe injur- les to his arm, leg and side.
His eyes were also injured by the blast, and he was thrown more than 20 yards over a wall.
Nevertheless he managed to pick himself up and, ignoring his in- juries, made his way back to the offices which had been wrecked and under the debris of which was his section leader.
At great personal risk and al- most at the stage of complete col- lapse Whitlock managed to extract his section leader, thus saving his life.
After performing this brave ac-
hospital. British Wireless.
question the Foreign Un-tion Whitlock had to be taken to der-Secretary stated that after consultation with
Benefit To Litigants the appropriate authori-
If these two things are done I ties in
feel confident that, in the long run, litigants will
benefit
the U.S., the
since British Government had the length of the actual hearing drawn up a comprehen- of the case will be considerably
TOMISLAV AFFAIR NEGOTIATIONS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Italian marines and Customs river police are still on board
reduced for the reason that the sive scheme which already Court will be in a position to have had been put into opera-the Yugoslav steamer "Tomislav"
a clear idea of the issues .in-
volved before the evidence is tion for cooperation in in Shanghai as negotiations for heard, instead of having to grope scientific matters with the the ship's release remain unsettl-
U.S.A.
ed.
It is understood the Italians
Dr. Darwin, Director of the have replied to the Japanese pro- National Physical Laboratory had test over the seizure, and the in- been sent as director of a central cident is expected to be settled scientific office working under the this week.-International Newa direction of Council in North America.
the British Supply Service.
Dr. Darwin will collaborate. with U.S. research bodies and act as a channel for exchange withi the appropriate authorities technical scientific information.
ULSTER'S WAR CONTRIBUTION
In semi-darkness in an effort to and out during the course of the trial "what it is all about."
With regard to the claim itself I have come to the conclusion after hearing the evidence ten dered by the plaintiff and by the this is a typical defendant..that case of both parties keeping back from the court the real truth of the matter. That the plaintiff ac tually parted with the sum of $1,000, I have not the slightest doubt, but the question is whe-
He will also generally ther that sum was lent to the
ordinate esióntifie technical in- defendant or to a third party by quiries to and from the US.. au- the name of Chung Chee-wing.
thoritiza except in those mat I find it difficult to bellave-that-a
tera which are already dealt The Minister of Finance, an- business man of the plaintiff's
with through the Bervice. at-nouncing this in the Budget state- knowledge and, experience would
taghas
^ment, said last year the contribų- part with such a considerable sum In addition, Dr. Conant, Presi- tion was $0,000,000 but since then of money to another person with-dent of Harvard University, had estimates of reserved · revenue out obtaining some acknowledg-recently visited Englandesas raised for war purposes had: In- ment in writing of the debt, or at President Roosevelt's representa-creased by £0,500,000 which least seeing to it that a reliable tive. In order to establish a cor- should be reflected in the increas- witness was present when the responding mission in Britain, —- ed Imperial contribution. British money was handed over-
British Wireless,
"Wireless,
'Ulster's contribution to the Im- perial Exobequer, next year will be £11,000,000,