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Memorandua.
For the 6th. or 7th. time since I have been in the
Colony, less than 3 years, there is a deadlock in the business
of the Court, with which it is impossible for me to grapple in
any other way than by postponing the hearing of cases already
fixed for trial for an indefinite period, thereby causing great
inconvenience to the profession, and grave hardships to suitors.
The hardship is likely to be specially felt on this occasion, in
view of the proximity of Chinese New Year; because every effort
has to be made to get cases decided before that date.
I must not be understood to imply from the above that
when there is no deadlock, things work satisfactorily. The
business of the Court has to be carried on with a deadlock al-
-ways imminent. The hearing of cases has to be pieced and patch-
-ed and contrived to keep it going with any semblance of order
and regularity, in a manner which is scarcely dignified for a
Court which has important functions to perform, and is a
serious impediment in the proper administration of justice. But
periodically, circumstances over which I have no control bring
matters to a pass which no human ingenuity can grapple with, and
then wholesale postponement of cases is the only way out of the
difficulty. On this occasion the deadlock has been caused by the
Assize lasting for five days, and the hearing of an extradition
case
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