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who should take upon himself the keeping of all the accounts of the Supreme Court and thus relieve the Registrar, and allow him time for the general supervision of the officers of the Supreme Court including its Summary Jurisdiction.
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7th. The Commissioners are likewise of opinion that with regard to Bankruptcies a most imperfect system has, up to the present, been adopted in realizing and winding up the estates. They have ascertained that the few rules framed under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864, are imperfect.
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8th. The Commissioners consider it advisable that two competent officers should be appointed, to be termed Deputy-Registrars of the Supreme Court, whose duties more particularly should be attending in the Courts and performing the duties heretofore performed by the Registrar and the Deputy-Registrar, which would give the Registrar, being relieved of those duties, time and opportunities to attend to other matters, which, up to the present time, appear to have been very much neglected. The duties of these officers should be defined and directed by the Registrar.
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APPENDIX No. 2.
Extract from "The China Mail,” April 26, 1880.
Another of those "scenes" which have lately taken place in the Supreme Court here occurred this morning. Such exhibitions have of late become so glaringly frequent and so oppressive to the members of the bar and every other person who has anything to do before my lord the Chief Justice that it is now high time that they should be mentioned with a view to some steps being taken to remedy this unpleasant state of things.
Extract from the Hong Kong “Daily Press," April 27, 1880.
The case for hearing on the occasion in question was that of Kwan Hoi Chune and others, and Fong Sui Fung and others. The Attorney-General and barristers who represented the parties were in attendance and twelve special jurors were present in answer to their summonses. Amongst the spectators were some English-speaking Chinese. The case was not heard, the Court collapsing, in consequence of the querulousness and impatience of the Chief Justice. His Lordship was evidently in one of the worst of his occasional ill humours, and so far from taking pains to conceal it he gave it a free rein and permitted it to trample bar, officers, and jurors alike under foot. every one in the Court was insulted; the Attorney-General was flouted and denied a hearing.
Scant ceremony too did the Registrar receive
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who should take upon himself the keeping of all the accounts of the Supreme Court and thus relieve the Registrar, and allow him time for the general supervision of the officers of the Supreme Court including its Summary Jurisdiction.
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7th. The Commissioners are likewise of opinion that with re- gard to Bankruptcies a most imperfect system has, up to the present, been adopted in realizing and winding up the estates. They have ascertained that the few rules framed under the pro- visions of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864, are imperfect.
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8th. The Commissioners consider it advisable that two com- petent officers should be appointed, to be termed Deputy-Regis- trars of the Supreme Court, whose duties more particularly should be attending in the Courts and performing the duties heretofore performed by the Registrar and the Deputy-Registrar, which would give the Registrar, being relieved of those duties, time and opportunities to attend to other matters, which, up to the present time, appear to have been very much neglected. The duties of these officers should be defined and directed by the Registrar.
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APPENDIX No. 2.
Extract from "The China Mail,” April 26, 1880.
Another of those "scenes" which have lately taken place in the Supreme Court here occurred this morning. Such exhibitions have of late become so glaringly frequent and so oppressive to the members of the bar and every other person who has any- thing to do before my lord the Chief Justice that it is now high time that they should be mentioned with a view to some steps being taken to remedy this unpleasant state of things.
Extract from the Hong Kong “ Daily Press," April 27, 1880.
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The case for hearing on the occasion in question was that of Kwan Hoi Chune and others, and Fong Sui Fung and others. The Attorney-General and bar who represented the parties were in attendance and twelve special jurors were present in answer to their summonses. Amongst the spectators were some English-speaking Chinese. The case was not heard, the Court collapsing, in consequence of the querulousness and im- patience of the Chief Justice. His Lordship was evidently in one of the worst of his occasional ill humours, and so far from taking pains to conceal it he gave it a free rein and permitted it to trample bar, officers, and jurors alike under foot. . . . . every one in the Court was insulted; the Attorney-General was flouted and denied a hearing.
Scant ceremony too did the Registrar receive
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