CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 602

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duty but on his own responsibility and without consulting the

Town Council. At the hearing the Justices dismissed the

Summons on the ground that one of the sitting Magistrates being

a Town Counciller was thereby disqualified from adjudicating

upon a Summons. On motion for a Mandamus to the Justices to hear and adjudicate pn the surmons it was held (by Field and

Cave J.J.) there was no ground for supposing either substantial

interest or likelihood of bias and consequently no disqualifica-

-tion.

In Reg. v. Justices of Cumberland

(58 LT 491) it was held that one of Justices had a real bias

and he was thereby disqualified. The facts of the case were that the Magistrate an ex officio member of the Board of Guard-

-ians took an active part in defending an appeal which a Railway

Company brought against the decision of an Assessment Committee

in respect of the rating of their property in a particular

parish and voted that the costs of the Assessment Committee in

defending the appeal should be defzayed by the Board of Guard-

-ians.

To disqualify a Justice from sitting in my

opinion there must be:-

extos nad mottaeup at:'S

譬

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of betatoqqs moitaroqz00 a to moİTTO MA

-odar a tantaş · unorawl a bentsido eter dquoted en toelico ali to egredoalb eft ni betos en galob on al «IAGNIS at revsqe

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(1).

(2).

A personal or prixate interest:

Or an active or substantial interest.

The interest must be of such a nature as is

likely to bias the mind of the Judge.

I suggest that this matter be submitted to

the Secretary of State with a view that the opinion of the Law

Officers #r the Crown may be taken if necessary,

I cannot help thinking that this question

has already been decided by the Colonial XRF Office with

reference to some other Colony. I refer to the question

whether the Attorney-General who has advised in any way on any

proceedings is disqualified from sitting as a Judge on the

grounds