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opportunism, which is sometimes made against the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. That being the case, it does seem to me that my learned friend's motion is a most opportune and a most wise one, and I, therefore, vote for it with very great pleasure, and I hope it may be considered by those in high authority when they undertake this great work, which I suppose will be undertaken, of reconstituting the Court of Appeal for IIis Majesty's dominions.
The OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT : this motion, but I have been
I did not intend to speak to informing speech of the honourable Member who proposed this motion, that I am so impressed by the extremely interesting and going to permit myself the indulgence of a pious opinion. I do not think that this Council can go beyond that. If we express a pious opinion we may at least hope that it will have some effect in the proper quarter; but beyond that, of course, it is impos- sible that we can go. I should like to say one thing, however, and that is that I did not understand from what the proposer of this motion said that he looked forward, even if his proposal took form and was granted, that it would result in putting on this Court of Appeal a legal luminary whom one might regard as a sort of universal provider of legal knowledge-a man who knew all the laws of all the British Colonies. I rather understood that the learned member wished that the fact should be known that there are certain Crown Colonies which are of some importance in the world, and that they have a fair right to representation on such a Court. I believe, if I understand him rightly, that that was the object of his motion, and in inviting, as he did, our attention to the fact that no such motion had been made in any other Colony, I think he is also right. I am not speaking of the Colonies which have a representative form of government-they have already been provided for; but the Crown Colonies have not. Amongst Crown Colonies I, personally, think that this is the premier. I have no authority for making that statement, but, at the same time, it is the result of a long residence in, and some knowledge of the affairs of, the Colony and the country that is behind it. I think it would be extremely difficult for anybody to prove that this is not the premier Colony; and, therefore, if I am right, it is very fitting that a member of this Council should have brought forward this proposal; and I will do what I can to let the suggestion be known in the right quarter if the Council agrees to it, as I have no doubt the Council will. I shall certainly have much pleasure in expressing my own concurrence with the proposal, and I trust that some day it will take effect.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.
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No. 20.
COUNCIL OFFICE TO COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received April 23, 1901.)
Privy Council Office, Whitehall, April 23, 1901.
SIR,
IN reply to Mr. Cox's letter of the 17th instant* I have the honour, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, to inclose herewith the following papers:-
a.) A Return of the total number of Petitions for special leave to appeal (presented in England) coming from India, Canada, Australasia, and all Colonial and Consular Courts (other than the Courts of Crown Colonies), and also of all appeals coming from the same places actually disposed of by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council during the last five years.
(b.) A Return of all Petitions for special leave to appeal (presented in England) and of all appeals coming from Crown Colonies (ie., all Colonics except Canada, Newfoundland, the Australasian Colonies, New Zealand, Cape Colony, and Natal) actually disposed of by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council during the last five years.
I have, &c.
E. S. HOPE, Registrar of the Privy Council.
* No. 17.
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Enclosure in No. 20.
(A.)
APPEALS from Indian and Colonial Courts (not including cases from Courts of Crown Colonies) disposed of in the Privy Council during the last Five Years.
Newfoundland Australasia
1896
From India
23
Canada
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Natal
Total
1897-
From India
1898-
Canada
19
31
Cape of Good Hope
"
Natal
"
Australasia
*
Consular Court
Total
From India
1899-
Canada
Newfoundland
Australasia
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Consular Courts
Channel Islands
Total
From India
21
99
Canada
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Newfoundland
Australasia
19
59
Channel Islands
Total
1900--
Prom India
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Canada
"I
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
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Australasia
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Consular Courts
11
Channel Islands
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61
38
8
3
3
57
12
27
73
14
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104
48
12
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23
94
420
PETITIONS for Special Leave to appeal from Courts in India and the Colonies to the Sovereign in Council (other than Petitions from Courts of Crown Colonies) disposed of in the Privy Council during the last Five Years.
1896-
From India
*
Canada
Australasia
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