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Enclosure 2.
Report by the Attorney General.
on Ordinance No. 2
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No. 2 of 1894.
Attorney General's office,
19th March, 1894.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled "an Ordinance to amend the Supreme Court Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1873," and am of opinion that the Ordinance is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.
The Chief Justice suggested and approves of these alterations; I concur with him. I append the reasons for the Ordinance.
Reasons.
It is thought undesirable that the power of the Court, sitting in Summary Jurisdiction, to summon a jury "of its own motion," when neither party applies for such jury, should be continued. It is, moreover, considered desirable that the remuneration of Special Jurors fixed by Section 29 of The Jury Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, should be the same in Civil cases in the Supreme Court whether the Court is exercising its Summary Jurisdiction or otherwise.
(Signed) W. M. Goodman,
Attorney General