negatived the argument that any material relief to the
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Chief Justice could be afforded by any re-arrangement of
work with the Puisne Judge, and added that the work was now
in arrears and likely to increase. He also urged the
necessity of a reconstitution of the Appeal Court.
In considering this matter Your
Lordship's legal advisers will no doubt place all the
weight to which it is due upon Mr. Wise's recent conversion
to the opinion that a Third Judge is now necessary. I feel
myself that his departure makes a considerable difference
to the question since by common consent he was an extra-
-ordinarily capable and rapid worker, and his altered views
and his absence, apart from the insistence of the Chief
Justice, will, I think, justify me in Your Lordship's
opinion in once more submitting the question for Your
Lordship's decision.
9.
I strongly concur in the necessity
for a properly constituted Appeal Court of which this
Government would perhaps not infrequently itself take
advantage, and if the proposal I have made with regard to
the Shanghal Judge should in Your Lordship's opinion not
be feasible, I am of opinion that on this ground alone a
Third Judge has become a necessity. It is probable
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indeed