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Course

:ppointed without any delay. Of we ask only for provisional and temporary appoints sin the first

uistance

It now occasionally happens

Swe. Barff

that one Plunket and

are

both absent at the

реше

time

and that, when two Courts are

sitting. The result is that weither

Court can continue to sit in the

absence of a Registrar who is weessarily an integral part of

the Court to such an extent that be a love is by the Code authorised to record the Secree of the bourt by the bods sect XIVIT paragraph 5 the Decree.

His duinute is made

Wwe Barff has no legal training

and becau

give

the Court no

no aid.

on the contrary be falls into errors

in

recording

the

decisions of the

le

Court, errors which by the bode are irremediable except by the expensive process of a rebering.

dis person entirely fitted to be Seputy Registrar is to be proced Judges have not the information required. They rely on officers

trained to the

entirely

.....

How

Recowledge Land. Ching Justice Muusficia

relied on

the

officers of the Court

appears from a passage in RV

Wilks Eequire 11. Barrous Reporte

John

2.5.-66. which we

have extracted and

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