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Court and the Officer Administering the Government asked
if the words used were correctly reported. Sir F. Piggott's
reply and the report of the paper are attached. A few days
previously the Puisne Judge was reported to have stated
when he left the Bench after 25 minutes work that there
did not seem to be much business in his Court. Mr. May
then made a suggestion that the Puisne Judge should take
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the Bankruptcy work, and Mr. Wise offered to do so on
condition that if his Summary work fell into arrears it
should temporarily revert till he had worked them off. This
suggestion was refused by Sir F. Piggott on the following
grounds (as stated by Mr. Wise):
I. He objected to the Government interfering
with the arrangement of Court business, which is entirely
in the hands of the Judges and which might tie their hands
for the future.
II. That to accept the proposed arrangement
would imply that the Chief Justice is not capable of carry-
-ing on the business of his Court and that the Puisne
Judge is not willing to fall in with his views.
III.
That such arrangement is only a slight alleviation which the Court is quite capable of adopting
for itself and which it has already done on previous
occasions (in one instance for over two months).
2.
The Officer Administering the
Government dissented from the Chief Justice's view that his
question