CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 98

2.

3

95

1842 when the then existing English law was declared to be the law of this Colony

little care

appears

rs to have been "very

taken to amend or add to the Ordinances

so that the law here might keep-

abreast with the progress of the law in England .

|

l In connexion with the preparation

of a new collected Edition of Antiscanne

a

it is desirable that

a statuncut

should be drawn up showing what provisions of English Statutes pressed

since 184.2 should be easted as

Ordinances in order to place the law of the Colony upon the level or with the English law at the present tive.

7.

It would be desirable incer

Connexion with the above work to

provide for a complete and immediate reform of the Ordinances regulating the jurisdiction and constitution and n procedure of the Court of the Colony.

The existing Supreme Court and Court Ordiners ces are imperfect.

8.

Summary

9.

lace tow

The place

occupied by the

Code of Civil Procedure would be much

a new code embodying

better

& fitted by

the accepted provisions of the Rutes r under the Indicature & Acts by evlsich civil procedure is now regulated in England with the local Notifications that might be requisite.

10.

The present Civil Procedure Code : prepared by Sir Dution Pauncefote (before the passing of the Sedicative

Act

naxion