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Goodman thought it possible that arrangements might be made
for one of the Judges here to do the double work which
would be involved by the other being absent provided that
this absence did not occur more frequently than once a
year and did not extend over more time than would allow the
Judge one week at Weihaiwei.
4.
Your Lordship's legal advisers
will be in a better position than I am to judge between the
arguments of the Chief Justice in support of his contention
that it is not possible to utilize such spare time as the
Puiane Judge has in relieving the Chief Justice of some of
his work and Sir Henry Berkeley's contention which is
supported by Mr. Sercombe Smith that a well considered use
of the power conferred on the Chief Justice by Section 23
of the Supreme Court Ordinance of 1873 to distribute the
work between himself and the Puisne Judge should as here-
-tofore lead to a mutually satisfactory division of labour
between the Judges, and prevent any dislocation of or
delay in, and certainly any deadlock in the transaction
of the business of the Court. On the face of it I see no
reason why the Puisne Judge should not either take all
Civil Cases in Original during Criminal Sessions or else
take