CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 68

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10.

Your Excellency says (paragraph 7) that

"experience in the past seems to show that neither illness of

one of the Judges, nor exceptionally heavy cases lasting from

16 to 18 days have produced a deadlock". I do not know whether

the illness of a Judge has raised any serious questions in the

past, and judging by the Tables of work for 1904, it could have

made no difference to the work of the Court. But it stands to

reason, I submit, that if the Chief Justice falls ill the cases

he had fixed for trial must be postponed, or else the Puisne

Judge must take them, and upset his own arrangements. But the

more important part of the sentence is the one based on Mr.

Smith's statement about the length of exceptionally heavy casos

and their effect. Your Excellency doubtless imagines that these

heavy cases were of frequent occurrence, or Mr. Smith would not

have laid stress upon them. There has during many years only

been one case lasting 18 days. There seems to have been one

lasting 10 days before I came, and there has been one I think

since; so that this statement of Mr. Smith is couched in such a

form as to be misleading as to the facts. But it is also mis-

-leading in the inference which is drawn from it. A long case

produces no deadlock because its probable length is known and

estimated for beforehand. It produces delay in bringing on other

cases for trial, but not a deadlock. It is necessary therefore

to

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