Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

Document type:: Volume

Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

Collection:: Economics Books

1528 : IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII from that Dominion. With regard to the United Kingdom the Government were not prepared to make a change in the composition of the House of Lords, which already included one distinguished judge from the Dominions, Lord de Villiers. He suggested that two English judges of the highest quality should be added both to the House of Lords and to the Judicial Committee, that the quorum of both Courts should be fixed at five instead of three as at present, and that the Court should sit successively in the House of Lords for United King- dom appeals, and in the Privy Council for appeals from the Dominions and Colonies. It would thus be in effect a single Court sitting in two divisions, but the old name would be kept. Sir Joseph Ward! expressed his preference for a system by which the Judicial Committee should be strengthened by the addition of a permanent judge from each of the self- governing Dominions who should take part in the hearing of all cases from the Dominions, and not merely of cases coming from the Dominion in which he was a judge. It would be well worth, in his opinion, the cost to the Dominion of paying their judge, for he would be able to inform the Court on many matters which it might not otherwise have satisfactorily before it. The native land cases which affected New Zealand were of the highest consequence to the Dominion, for 7,000,000 acres of land were in the hands of some 47,000 Maoris, and it was of such moment that cases which affected those lands—and such cases must arise frequently—should be rightly decided that the payment for a judge was com- paratively of no importance. But Sir Joseph Ward’s proposal was not acceptable to the rest of the members of the Conference. Mr. Brodeur 2 stated that the existing system worked satisfactorily, that the Provinces of Canada were concerned in the matter, and would resent if anything were decided without their consent, and accordingly it would be well if matters could be left as they were. Mr. Fisher 3 thought that appeals from Australia should be decided in Australia, but he recognized that that Cd. 5745, pp. 224 seq. Cf. Dr. Findlay, at pp. 237-9. Ihid., pp. 239 seq. 3 Thid., p. 245.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation