CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 423

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Chief Justice in the Department should be recognised, I may refer to the case dealt with in my letter to Your Excell mcy of 11th. January last, concerning a petition from a prisoner in prison on civil process which was referred by the Colonial Secretary as a mere routine matter to the Registrar, Mistakes of this sort are inevitable if the Registrar is considered as an independent Head of Department.

To come now to the question out of which this question had arisen, the appointment to and removal of officers in the Registry without consultation with the Chief Justice. The case of the Deputy Registrars is one in which it is imperative that the Governor should ascertain the views of the Chief Justice. If the exigencies of the service are such that these views cannot be carried out then the Chief Justice can have no more to say, But, with very great respect, I must point out that it is an unheard of thing that the officers with whom the Chief Justice must be in direct relations should be shifted about in an arbitrary manner without his being consult- -ed. These officers are in many ways the Chief Justice's per- -sonal officers, who have their part to play in the administra- -tion of justice. They are the repositories of the minor precedents of the Court, to whom the Chief Justice has often to turn for information; the Official Receiver is his right-hand man in Bankruptcy, with whom it is often necessary for him to confer, and it is impossible for the Court to be conducted on what I may call living principles unless the Government will realise and appreciate the methods on which the Chief Justice works.

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I hope it may not be necessary for me to say any more on this question. Sir G. Phillippo's minute was written at the beginning of the question; it is far from complete, and it lends itself to much misinterpretation if it is construed by the exact meaning of the words used. Your Ex- -cellency will I think see that the departure from the customary method of communication between the Government and the Chief Justice proposed at the close of the first paragraph of the

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