in Bankruptcy and in Probate jurisdiction should be heard in Chambers or in the large Court.
I had discretion decided to hear certain matters in each jurisdiction in Chambers, and I duly sat in Chambers from time to time for the purpose: but Mr Gibbons has day by day refused to attend in Chambers insisting that I had power to sit in the large Court only and in his place, and he has sat in the large Court repeatedly.
Mr Justice Suordear has by his exhaustive argument proved that from first to last my decision & actions were strictly according to practice, procedure, and Law, but that Mr Gibbons' conduct has been throughout irregular, contrary to practice, procedure and Law.
I submit that even if Mr Gibbons had been right in law, it was insubordination in him as an Officer subordinate to the Judge to set his opinion in public against mine, creating the public scandal which culminated in his utterances in open Court.