energies
to submit to the legislative this matter.
scheme that
been given exclusively to the duties of Registrar of Council and the Admiralty and Supreme Courts the Deputy Registrar improving the audit of
would have been relieved from many duties which have lately fallen on
him and would have so
be thought desirable for
the accounts of the Official Assignee.
official Administrator.
or
The Bankruptcy Ordinance
has rendered the work in provides in Sec. 70, 71, 79
the Office easier.
5. The Office of Official
for
cross audits by the Official Assignee and the Court
and Creditors
Assignee on Bankruptcy may account (Sec. 79).
examine any
It would appear that
the Registrar. I was then the Court has been
Attorney General and on
remiss in
it
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in
this
my
If the Chief Justice has found by experience, that the provisions are insufficient to ensure a proper Audit, He should have framed a Rule to remedy the
Defect.
If the Court and the
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my return from England in 1866 as Judge I found that the Registrar had always been Official Assignee. There was then very little Bankruptcy there is now a great deal.
Usually Creditors do not
choose Creditors assignees
· Officers under its Control, the result is that the Do their duty. I don't see Administration of nearly
how the present system can be mended.
all Bankrupts estates has Devolved on the Official
Assignee and the Office
ons.
Has Ordinance 1 of 1860 been complied with? has become of of great The Chief Justice can call for pecuniary responsibility and for the accounts at any therefore of much public time, and satisfy himself importance.
that
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