CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 74

72

.naso moltikandra mit mi evag I trembiri duaoch act uð net s

*ers/[(sng Isotoung eren erð vd balquooo amil to Jurons Istot m

25 mant agel don ta stemitao broda I tremburt, tort to melt.

mato bregat dinkeen natuqos quiéteri,adhogen malbaen jorna

,baraduil der y el row not bus (leaw tel:

ed

** Test duet „sify leze

per avty A59

and 10%

Juoda Tot erdis rned wheb ynofos mit murt Jusede DEW

arft að betu

(ven mere ♪ od 01 mon? bie

3) belgroso em omit derid to sludw ed":

8X AW

adas mbut gnol our patent

bar.

37 •IS (8270-197 Ininof

* I AVA one".

ball oba

* tant motxerro: €

Inngang Icob of J^?

SHON ST. }! ow seld edit **s..

abwio ecerit et beater amoldeamp #Instamin

weilong one two

kel, you

e bro or

alambid # stude në er

en tem et tub 2o72 I

mi bebrogonų moać ovad dol ́%

vd soltaub ob od

fais en Serol anycol oshu” a mod tad? bea04 20

.nevieunend saaqung etnormbut old tant bus

o es JuE

R

idea seems to be that if there is a spare afternoon a case can

car

be called on and be disposed of. What I have to say on this head

and/be

applies as well to Summary as to Original Jurisdiction, but it

is a question which I gather Mr. Smith knew nothing about or at

least never concerned himself with.

Getting a case ready for hearing involves a

great deal of work, both by solicitor and barrister. It is

quite impossible to imagine that a barrister can have a dozen

cases in his head ready for argument at a moment's notice. They

have to work here without juniors, and therefore have to do all

the drudgery themselves; looking up cases, reading masses of

papers, in addition to thinking out argument and shaping the

case. And the solicitors have to be prepared with all sorts of

documents, with notes of evidence, and a dozen other things;

above all they have to get their witnesses ready, and anyone

who knows the Chinese knows how important it is to give them

fixed date when they are to come to Court, so that they may

make their preparations accordingly; the Court cannot try cases

without the witnesses; and even in such a case as the falling

through of a long case, as recently occurred owing to the

sudden death of Fr. Danby who was a witness, it is practically

impossible to advance other cases for hearing, though it would

evidently be for the interests of all parties concerned to do

80