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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1938.

Chief Justice's Piquant Analysis of Legal Oddities

$ recent

the two gems I think "are оп A piquant commentary legal profession by His Honour the American one. "This Court knows Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGrejudicially that there is always

kind of gor, was provided at to-day's tiffin chance of losing in any of the Rotary Club.

lawsuit and the headnote to Fay Drentice (14 LJ CP. 298). "We all know," said Sir Atholl Held also that the Court will take "that ignorance of the law is no judicial notice that rain falls." We excuse. It must indeed be hearten- seem to be going from bad to worse

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ing for a Chinese sezman who but I am proud to say the courts speaks no English to think, if he have not yet sunk so low as to ever thinks, that the moment he admit to understanding what these sets foot in London he is presumed detestable letters **O.E." mean. to have a thorough knowledge of That momentous point came up for English law, which consists of some decision by the Privy Council on two hundred volumes of statutes. an appeal from Rangoon in 1935. about half a million reported cases Lord Russell of Killowen rightly and I should hate to tell you how stigmatised these obtrusive letters many text books.

as a "commercial barbarism” and

To this great rule there is only "The Times," which devoted a lead- one exception. A judge may, andling article to the case, complained often does, display his ignorance of that the hearing had given 0.K. his chosen subject with impunity.ja leg up in the social scale." Be Despite the spoon-feeding of coun-that as it may I am fairly con- sel a judge never forgets that to fident that the day has not yet come "O.K. err is human. For his guidance when I am likely to hear there are serried, ranks of Appeal Chief" as a substitute for "If Your Courts which exist only to put him Lordship pleases."

right in his law. But mark this

nice touch! When a judge errs he

is put right by a higher court free

gratis and for nothing. He loses SERVANTS

jno prestige, no money, and, so far

as I know, no sleep, and the lay LUCKY GLANCE

client who invoked his aid has the

doubtful privilege of paying two

two TO SEA

sets of costs.

SECOND ELEVEN!

Margaret M'Fadyen, farmhouse servant girl, on the treacherous

In 2 Workman's Compensation Argyllshire coast, polishing the kit- case a few years ago the County chen hearth looked out of the win- Court Judge found for the work-dow-and saved the lives of eight man, the Court of Appeal, three men.

deep, unanimously found for the

Willie and Allan

employers and the House of Lords, She saw a light or the beach, by a majority of three to two, re-flickering in the fog. She dropped stored the County Court Judge's her brushes and ran into the stable decision. And so the law is de-of Smaull Farm, Islay, to warn her clared for all time by a minority employers, of four to five, and without irre-M'Eachern. verance, one might say that the batsman who went in first for the four was only a member of the the surging sea and caught the lines thrown to them by the crew second eleven

You've all heard of the judge who of the homewardbound Fleetwood, asked "Who is Charlie Chaplin?" Lancs, trawler Exmouth, founder-

ing on a shelf of rock. or even more remarkable "What is whisky?" I have looked up a few

They clambered over seaweed to

As they grasped the ropes, a boy

of the things that a judge wil was cycling madly along the cliff admit to knowing, and here they road to warn the coastguards, four miles away, to call the life-saving apparatus from Port Charlotte.

are.

SOLEMNLY LAID DOWN

It has been solemnly laid down that judges may take notice that

Almost Safe-Rope Broke

the

The M'Eacherns, the waves swish- there are thirty days in April, that ing round their boots, had to fling to make Oxford and Cambridge are national themselves face-forward institutions for the advancement of fast the Exmouth's ropes to learning and religion, and that the rocks. Ploughmen left their fields. value of money has diminished to help them. since the days of Richard L The

The skipper, Ernest Edwards, and seven of the crew, were brought to shore. Three others. were drowned.

Two of the men

were

CENTRAL actually on the rocks, and were al-

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The M'Eacherns, took the eight survivors to their farm and gave them food and clothing.

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