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MR JUSTICE CASSELS
At 81, one of the oldest Judges.
THE judges
are
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1958.
The new Lord Chief
leads a brilliant team
to breakfast
back from their holidays. The Michael mas Law Sittings took last week with place
ceremonial at Lord Justice
Rolemn Westminster,
Dressed up in their robes these Top Men of Law walked from Divine Service in the Abbey ncross the road to the House of Lords for their annual treat styled with appropriate dignity the Lord Chancellor's Break- fast. At the head of the file was Lord Goddard's
uccessor, Lord Chief Justice Parker.
It was A good moment train the apollight Kon Judiciary. What manner men are they?
Various
by IVAN YATES
Ormerod,
has
from the Bench. Wynn Parry, J. has done so. Romer, L. J has done so, too,
Lord,Goddard's unveressful incursion into polites was never repeated. Other judges have had Times change. Today divorce better luck. Cassels has spent longer discreditable, more than 10 years of his life Indeed, it is quilo. common, in the House of Commons-as 0
has been Even Her Majesty's Judges go Tory. Gorman
" Donovan a through the divorce courts and Liberal MP. And continue to lay down the Jaw Socialist one.
roached the Court of Appeal, is Ro the first ever to do so.
It seems nowadays very much the policy to give ilkely lawyers a try-out in the provinces belore ringing them to the West End for a run in the High Court,
Court Judges have
A long run, 100. For ligh no retiring age. They are known
ns Mr Justice Blank or Blank, J., get to knighthood automatically on the appointment and land £8,000 a
of year.
Very various in degree and rank, fer a start. At the bottom of the ale are the county court judges. They are known Dr Judge Blank and have to retire at 72. They were not
The fortunate few
move on
up to the Court of Appeal. They us not get a rise. But they be
come known as Lord Jusilco Blank, or Blank, Jwithout actually bring lords-and sworn of the Privy Council and su tuck on the Rt Hon.
are
before their names. For one them
to the House of advance lies Lorda os law lords. There they bereme lle pours, arv
Joined
·
In fact, lawyers are tradition up in the faith, Devlin, how- aily political animals, And the ever has lapsed. He was brought tradiilon dies hard. Barry, Fit up a Catholic, went to o Catho nemore. Sellers, Morris, Austin He public school and married his Jones and Stevenson: all have Oppenheimer wife in a Catholic had a shot as a candidate' al church. But he is no longer some time or other. So has regarded as on the strength. He stood as a (Hie brother, William the Wallington. Socialist for Bromley way back actor, in.) in 1924.
the Christian, Wallington
the married a Jewess, Salmon, one was not in procession from the Abbey of the three Jewish judges, With
follow Roman married
Christian. Most Catholic Judges he ,was at judges marry saneont Most the married of all de Lord Merriman,
the President
.vision of the High Court. His first two wives died. He now lives happily with a third.
Ja
Westminster Cathedral for Red Mass. (They did not miss the breakfast afterwards, how- cvcr.)
Wallington is a convert, Barry Elwes and Byrne were brought
Don't Let This Fear Of
Heights Get You Down
THERE are
thousands of people who sit on the edge of the bed night after night and giddily wonder: "What's wrong with me?" The very moment they get out of bed they feel dizzy. As their child plaintively calls, "Mummy. Mummy," they stagger, eyes half closed, into the baby's bedroom.
These periods of dizzineas bad worried Mrs Parsons sufficient
me. I could reassure her nt
invited to the beanteast, how by the nda Scottish judge, and ly for her to come and consult viewing perspectives from un
over. For they do not really ount as pukka judges.
Increasingly, though, they get promoted. At least Are High Couri Judges started in the county court. One of them,
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN Coincidener in chess: the following game was played both in Portugal in 1956 and In Germany in 1958, 1 P-K4, P-K4: 2 ki-KB3. KL-QB3; 3 B-B4 Kt-83; 4 Kt-Kt5, P-Q4:5PXP.KtXP: 8KtX BP. XxKI; 7 Q-D3 ch, K-K3: B K-B3. Kt-K15; 9 P-Q4, P- B3; 10 0-0, P-Quis; lí 8- 3. B-K12 12 R-K1, K- Q2: 13 RP. KixK; 14 Q- 57 ch. B-K2, 15 RxB ch. QXR: 15 B-K6 ch. K-Q1: 17 -Kis! R-KI: 18 BxQ ch. RxB: 10 Q-89 ch, R-Ki; 20 Q-QB mate
Solution No. 54877 1 Q-RS rthreat 2 Qx8 and 3 0xP). PXKU: 20% ch. KxB, JQ- K17, or 1 B-K£7; 2 B-R31 and 3 Kt-27 or 3 Bx B, or I BBG; 2 B—Kİ! with oppositions for ail
simlar
black bishop moves.
Loton Express Serifed
receive a sultry of £0,000 a
car.
All these brands of judges-- except those from the county cop-walled in the process sion. But Luxe will be one notable absentre. No longer did the Tatilinr rough, twinkling figure of Lord Goddard lead the way. At the age of 81, after 26 years en the Bench, he has Bally retired
full of honour and at the height of lus powers.
Unyielding
He was by no means the oldest Judge in the saddle, Cansels, J., a few weeks and
is his senior will be 64 noxt Wallington, birthday. Nobody can make a Judge give up if he will work
DB.
once.
Giddiness results when not enough blood reaches the brain. The Budden change from a re- lated, slumbering position to a vertical one doesn't allow the oxygenated blood at first 10 climb upwards quickly enough.
few moments pause and all well, Usually these brief giddi- ness spells are a normal physio- logical happening.
"Yes, but it's not only that, doctor," Mrs Parsons insisted.
All in a doctor's day: by
CEDRIC CARNE
Ir Devlin,
of the
The start
Divorce
Even the topmost Judge has la begin at the bottomes a at Junior barrister. Though least three of the present Bench started out as colicitors.
in history,
Wallington stuck it in the Junior Branch of the profession for 11 years. And Omerod was 34 when he was called to the Barthe age at which Lord Evershed, the Master of the Rolls, became the youngest Silk
Before their Coll judges went of us. Most of them
went to publie schools and on to Oxford or But not all. And Cambridge. Sometimes cured.
those who did were by na chronic catarrh is the
means all scholars. Or it maybe a simple malter of having wax in the ears.
We feel dizzy gazing down easily
because we are from heights
usual and curious angles. Our eyes relay drunken messages and cause many of us to miter from vertigo." Fear of heights, of course, can also cause giddi- news in some people.
.
LESS LIKELY
That we partially depend on our eyes for our sense of balance can be easily demonstrated. Can you stand still with your feet
a
столе
Too many people are fitted with
expensive hearing aids when all they need is to have their
cars syringed. A almple procedure like this can cure the "deafness" and the giddiness at the same time: Afterwards, if they so wish, such patients can train to be steeplejacks.
"It seems always to be a sim- ple matter then?" Mrs Parsons
closed said, together and your eyes without swaying? Try it. The "No, hol always," I replied, more a person swayn the more "bat there are few causes of probable it is that ho depends giddincas which cannot be re- on the eyes for his sense of lieved or totally cured." balance and the less likely in he Vertigo. to "have a head for heights." This word "Is giddiness always physio-
I suffer from vertigo."
transformed
ROSY OUTLOOK
Even Menderes disease, where
to school like the rest
The Lord Chancellor only got a third in Greats at Oxford. Elwes did no better in History
Barnard's While
Third W08 actually in Law.
But they all made the grade. And as they paced with dignifled fo their breakfast tread who could begrudge them pride and a satisfaction at the position they have won for themselves?
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Jm mediately logical then?" Mrs Parsons ask there is a degenerative change Play Deserves Some
the hood of my surgery. Shadows grew longer, threatening.
"By vertige, I mean that I have no head Mrs Parsons ex-
Lord Goddard was a charac- ter, And a man of unyielding principle. Twenty-nine years age he stood for Parliament as an independent Conservative candidate at South Kensington.
The sitting Tory, Sir William Davison,
been for heights," had recently through the Divorce Courts.plained. Lord Goddard, then a leading KC, ezme forward to oppose him
What exactly is this trouble? at the General Election as the Our sense of position in space upon messages relayed representative of those dissident depends Tories In the Division who to our brain. Messages from the should soles of our feet and joints. Mcs- Sir William Thought stand down In view of his recent sages from our eyes, und above divorce. He came bottom of the oil, messages from the little
lubes in our Inner ears. poll..
UNTIL WE
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
UNDERSTAND
TRIS HYPNOTISMA
BY RADIO.. WEIRD! WHAT NEXTY
PANOT
GURE. LETME
THINK--
BOSS,MON LONG ARE WE KEEPING HER HERET
FINISH THE NEXT JOB, THE
DIAMOND CUTTER-NO
WORRY ABOUT MANDRAKE NOW,
THIS ONE'LL. BE ESPECIALLY AMUSING. YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE. TO LEAVE THE HOUSE, NARCA,
GO UPSTAIRS
I THINK
JOHNNY HAZARD.
CORKY, ARE THE BOYS:
MAD AT GULLET? WHY'S
HE SITTING ALONE? THE
WAY HE'S MOWING POWN THE OPPOSITION, THEY SHOULD LOVE HIM!
FERDINAND
SHH! NOT SO
LOUR! IT'S AN OLD
SUPERSTITION,
. HAZARD,..
NOBODY'S SUPPOSED TO SAY
A SINGLE WORD TO A PITCHER WHEN HE'S WORKING ON A I NO-NITTER! THAT DILI
SURE PIP THE TRICK!
cit
"Oli, no." I repiled "High or low blood pressure, anaemiu, and certain abnormalities of the Inner car may also
leod to attacks of giddiness."
in the inner ears, terds to elcar up spontaneously,
cures
The patient suffering from the giddiness of Meniere's disease usually has a history of "noises in the car" and "some hardness his of hearing" before he gels Eur trouble is one of the most first attack of severe vertigo.
Until such a time as it common reasons for periods of Uzziness. Many people who oc- itself medical treatment helps fow cassionally feel the world whirl considerably. There
medicines do not round are also slightly hard of cases where hearing. Nol necessarily deaf, relieve thoese giddy attacks, but but the sort of person who says if these fall, generally an opera- "Pardon?" or "What did you tlon can now successfully he
just A little more performed. day?".
"All in all," I said, "the ple- frequently than the next man.
Not uncommonly this "deaf- re is rosy for people with
ness" and "izziness" can be vertigo."
By Lee Falk and Phil Davia
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By Frank Rubbins
THERE'S THE GUY YOU WORK ON, TORKID TESSIE! JUST KEMEMBER... THIS
MUST BE THE LAST
GAME HE WING! grading
RELAX, LONG-SHOT AFTER HE MEETS FORD TESSIL HELL. THINK IT WAS THE LAST
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By OSWALD JACOBY
NE of my principal pleasures
York is
On trip to New
chance to talk to that I get u Led Hazen und listen to some of
is rubber bridge experience.
Lea was a little bitler about today's hand. His partner open- ed the queen of spades in res- ponse to Lee's spade overeall and Lee played third hand high. In other words ho over- took his partner's queen with his king.
This promptly set up South's ace and jack as spade tricks, but they would Have been tricks in any event and if Lee had not played his king on West's queen declarer would simply have
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Ppening lead-✯Q
ducked andh West would have been unüble to continue the suit In that case South would havo' had all the Ume in the world to establish dummy's diamonds and would have made four no-trump Instead of going down two as actually happened.
I asked Lee why he was bit- fer about the hand. 3t scerned to. me that the two-trick set should' have,
satisfed him.
"There was nothing wrong with the result," he agreed. "But- do you know that everyone was to busy discussing another hand that even my partner wouldn't say, 'Nice play!"""
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South
Wort * Pass
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Pass You, South, hold:
7.
MAQITE WKJES. 4481 44
What do you do?, A-Bla four spades. You pro- for the nanjor suli ratno.
TODAY'S QUESTION........ Your partner has rebid two clubs instead of two diamonds. What do you do in thle sitimusion?
Answer on blonday,
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