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5.

the list of work which falls to the Chief

Justice is accurately stated in paragraph 5 and is the work

which has always fallen to the Chief Justice and been hitherto

efficiently performed without difficulty.

But if the present Chief Justice cannot

cope with all this work because it has so swollen in volume since he was appointed, 1 submit the following suggestions for

lessening the quantity:-

(a).

Let the Puisne Judge take all the Probate

and Admiralty work, and perhaps some bankruptcy work.

When 1 acted as Fuisne Judge and Sir John

Carrington was Chief Justice, 1 did the Probate work and some-

times the Admiralty work.

(b).

Let the public examination in Bankruptcy

be taken by the Registrar or the Senior Deputy Registrar and let

the Chief Justice or Puisne Judge receive the Registrar's heport

and. make his order upon it.

(c).

Let undefended summonses under Sections 19

to 24 inclusive of the Code be taken by the Registrar.

(a).

Let the Chief Justice and the Fuisne Judge

take the Criminal Sessions alternately.

1 frequently took them for Sir John Carring-

-ton.

3.

With regard to paragraph 6. The main

reason I suggest why actions are not brought on for trial so rapidly when they are ripe for trial (i.e. when the pleadings have been completed) is the convenience of litigants (who have not their witnesses at hand), of Solicitors and particularly of Barristers, and not the inability of the Court to assign dates. If the records of the Court are examined, it will be found, 1 think, that it is the abandonment of fixed dates which necessit-

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