Man was misincted, and it will probably draw down some comments from the Justice on his return.
But I do not know that it has been done before, and I should be disposed to leave the matter as it stands, with a notification to R Macdonnell that I did not intend that the opinion of the Law Officers should be taken as an acquiescence in the judgment of the Justice.
Confidentially, the statement made in some quarters that the Government, not the Law Officer, in entering the nolle prosequi must not be taken to acquiesce in the judgment of the Justice.
The most expeditious & expensive...
23/12 May/12
Yes. But I do not add...
20.12.69
It is for the Judge to decide whether it is most contingent to recommend Low's plan being sanctioned.
I await an occasion for application of the doctrines laid down with C.J. The first cause will be...
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B. O. No 105 and Confidential
Dispatch of July 14th 1869.
In accordance with the intention expressed in my report dated 11th ultimo, the Crown Solicitor addressed a letter to the attorney of the Defendant Regina & Joint, a copy of which is forwarded herewith (annexure No 1.), and, at the opening of the Criminal Sessions on the 20th instant, made a statement to the Court conveying, as nearly as circumstances would admit of, the general tenor and import of the Report of the Law Officers of the Crown in this matter (dated June 4th, 1869). This statement was reduced into writing and a minute thereof placed on record by the Registrar of the Supreme Court.