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ST. PAUL'S RELIC

An Empire-visitor to London states that the original sounding board of St. Paul's Cathedral is now in Salisbury, Southern Rho- desia.

It has been convertãd into an oat table and is the chief omma- ment of the Domboshawa School; for the industrial, and vocational | training of natives

MIGRATION

WANTED REFORMS IN ENGLISH LAW

STAGGERING BURDENS OF COST

URGE FOR LEGAL PANEL SYSTEM

(By Sir Edward Acton)

MIR Edward Actos retired last October after serving for 15 years He was previously

as a Judge of the King's Bench division. İfor two years a County Court Judge...

*OSSES" is, the flippant may be supposed, found himself

Co slang of the attorney's faced with an appalling sum în

Smashing Costs

The sounding hoard has an in-| teresting history. It was placed clerk for costs one of the two costs. in St. Paul's in Wren's time. In great blots on the administra

tion of justice.

Now observe his point of 1803 it was sold at public ane-

The first and worst is costa view. He had merely wanted tion. It was bought by Mr. Bo-The second is delay. The curse to have the question of principle bert Mylne, Surveyor and of costs is twofold. In the first settled: he would cheerfully master of the Cathedral.

He converted it into a dining

table.

It was taken

place this bogey prevents many have accepted an adverse judg persons of stender means from ment in the county courts he enforcing a just claim or resist-had five judges in his favour to Rhodesia by ing an unjust one, though these against two for the other side: his great-great-grandson, Mr. are the very persons upon whom and yet he not only lost his case- EH Mylne. Mr. Mrine is such prevention weighs most but was also faced with

this. Principal of Domboshawa School. crushingly.

smashing liability for costs.- People with no means have "Oh, well" says the lawyer, the Poor Persons" Departmentthard cases make bad law.""

+

“WONDER OF THE ACE

In 1815 the sounding board which does excellent service."Not so." replies the litigant, the supported by the naselfish deit is bad law that makes hard

ofvotion of many members of the cases.”

was celebrated in verse by

Rev. Richard Roberts, a son the Provost of Eton.

Here are some of his lines:

der of the E.

I hung a shield o'er many

mitred sage,

Bar but those who have Now it is possible, without means, though not enough to being a Communist or a Soci- In Paul's proud dome, the won-play with, are outside the scope alist, to maintain that of al of this institution's beneficence things in this perplexing life In the second place, when one justice ought (if it be practic adoes embark on the sea of litiable) to be free to all-free as. gation, no one can tell where the air on the high road, re- costs are going to stop the membering always that air fit to

Most of us sky's the limit.

breathe and roads fit to travel remember the mean rates That every free story in "Bleak House" (vouch-Iman is entitled, if it be possible, be-ed as true by the author) of to free justice is, or ought to be

Gridley, the man from Shrop-ja truism—justice in this com preser-hire ruined and dying in beg text meaning access to the-

Heard Heaver's inspired priests

address the throng

And gave loud echo to their

sacred song-

The table's turned; I bent -neath the storm, ". Altered my habits, yet

ved my form.

Not So Tasty

her home her granny

Period Car

all except

Jones: "Is yours a two-door car? Brown "I sometimes think it was MOTH 33.824 applicants who had offender. but the criminal of made then.

gary, with his whole estate, left courts of law and full oppor to him by his father's will, all tunity to obtain their decisions:"

The Minister of Transport Prison reform and the after- Your Daily Smile! gone in costs, through no fault not abstract justice, that "in- need not be afraid of being care of the discharged. are

of his; and some may recall that violable shade” which none can minds Sir

the the father of considered tedious because he is troubling many

immortal clutch nor the most visionary John Gilmour, as. Home Secre A small child was allowed to enter Golliver. after being nearly theorist discern or defines Hor ever harping on the same tary, showed his personal ap-the sea for her first hath As was ruined by being concerned in As things are, the law is.

а gulped down. Įstring-

So long as the roads proval of such work as is done inevitable, she

mouthfal When she refizzed to several Chancery suits, had his open to everybody like the claim a quarter of a million vic-by the National Association of

asked, "Well ruin finally completed by get-Ritz Hotel" as a judicial wit is

ting a decree in his favour with reputed to have phrased it. tims every year, it is his first Visitors in addressing dear, did you like the wais

fits members recently. That "Yes, thank you," replied the full costs. duty to keep on sounding the work calls for sympathy, and small girl, politely,"

Some Limitations Many Reforms loud horn of warning. If he for a realisation, as Sir John the flavou

Alas! for the limitations. If There have been manyure will show the same readiness to argued, that the man who has.

Modesty

forms since the days of "Bleak possible," and if "practicable made a lapse may be worthy of

and Her Wealthy Father "What am IjHouse" help. Belief that the criminal to understand your income will be Travels but there are Grid.,

Well, it is certainly not impos "Gulliver's discard experiments which ac-

Can it be made practic tual experience does not seem is capable of being restored to at the time you expect to marry?"

able? If so, it must surely. leys and Gullivers among us to justify as to try new ones, good citizenship is inspiring the The Young Han: "Well, sir, Imer

ultimately be on lines somewhat Prison Visitors, the Prisoners-hardly like to put a definite figure even to-day.

those of he will have fewer adverse Aid Society, and the whole pri on your generosity.”

Here is a case in point. not analogous to critics At the opening of the son administration of Eng-

on the Gridleyan scale, but fact, National Health Insurance. If not fiction, to be read in the health, why not justice? Could National Safety Congress Mr. and Lord Hewart has uttered

cold print of the Law Reports not a democratic public, or that A tradesman of modest means

Harge section of it most congern- Hore-Belisha said that out of a special plea for the young

had a dispute with a railwayed, be induced to accept a liabih- mature years · requires come forward for driving tests possibly more help during the

Among Other Things company about damage to goods to create by small contribu

tions, in the interest of all, a Juniors “Daddy, what is dew?” carried by them. It involved since the beginning of March, time he is in prison and at the

Daddy: The rent, the note as the point of law and though the national litigation insurance 3:045 had failed, although "the moment of his discharge if the bank, and the instalment

the amount at stake was small, the fund, out of which the cost to humane penal" treatment of cu

contributors of all litigation; in- itests were of an elementary

principle was important these days is to be justified by land? From that he asked after results.

The Proposal

The case began in a county cluding the remuneration of the them to infer what an amount Reforms based on what is Boy I had a million dollars, do court and the judge gaves the legal profession, would be de

frayed? entradesman judgment with costs. of "perfectly needless risk to known as the Wakefield system you know where I'd be?"

Girl: "Yes, you'd be on our honey-The company appealed to atrative assistance of the State The legislative and adminis- {divisional court, which in those The Largest Sanitary Laundrymen, Dyers and Drycleaners in the Far East the public safety" had been in-are intended to return men to moon

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Only upheld the county court there would have to be safe- Yet it by no means follows Experiments in this direction my barber raised his price

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judge and dismissed the appeal guards (as in the Poor Persons that the rejected 10 per cent would be largely wasted were Wife: "A little beard told me.” with costs The company, still would all have been dangerous that the time expired men are there not an organisation to see

dissatisfied went to the Court Department) against frivolous

and vexatious claims or unten on the roads. Applicants are given their opportunity in cival ROTARY MEETING of Appeal

It was presided over by fa

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SIR T. SOUTHORN PRESENT

members of the court took a con tion.

Organised Panel

trary view, and accordingly the appeal was allowed, though It might be so organised as apparently with some indul to interfere no more with the gence as to the costs there lawyers than the panel syste

indeed prove a boon

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frequently rejected not because an life In 1933 the report of they have failed to reach the Departmental Committee minimum standard of pro- on the Employment of Prison- ficiency in the handling of aers recommended that where payments were made in prison, car, but because they could not as an inducement to extra la- answer questions on the new bour, the money should he Highway Code of a tricky type handed to the Prisoners Aid At yesterday's weekly tiffin of That was not the purpose of the Society for a man's own benefit the Rotary Club in the Roof Gar- Nevertheless, the tradesman, as with the doctors, and it might tests; nor does their usefulness or release This is a departure den of the Hong Kong Hotel Mr. Le in that direction Much more, from the Wakefield experiment, C. F. Strickland, who recently ar- in which money so earned can lived in the Colony after a lous we believe, may be hoped from be expended by the prisoners tour in China, addressed the meet the efforts which the Ministry is immediately, upon cigarettes of img on the application of the co making to bring home to pedes other small luxuries.

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