snap. 111] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 984 
and the ordinary judges of appeal may make rules for the 
regulation of the proceedings in the appellate division, and 
these rules on approval by the Governor-General in Council 
will be binding. Similarly the Chief Justice and other judges 
of the Supreme Court can make rules of procedure for the 
provincial and local divisions which will be subject to the 
approval of the Governor-General in Council. Until such 
rules are made, the existing rules will apply to each provincial 
or local division, while the procedure of the appellate division 
will be that of the Supreme Court of the Cape. 
As a result of the unification of the Courts of the Colonies, 
in future any provincial or local division in which an action 
is begun shall be entitled to order its transfer to another 
division if that be deemed more convenient. Again, the 
judgements of each provincial division can be registered in 
any other division and enforced by execution if necessary. 
The judgements of the appellate division shall be recognized 
throughout the Union and enforced in each province as if 
they were judgements of the provincial division. 
The laws regulating the admission of advocates and attor- 
neys to practise in the present Courts will apply to the 
admission of advocates and attorneys to practise before the 
provincial divisions of the Supreme Court, and the members 
of the provincial legal profession who have the right to 
practise before the divisional Courts shall be able to appear 
before the appellate division. There is, however, no attempt 
to assimilate generally the legal profession in the provinces.! 
The moment the Union was established, all suits, criminal 
or civil, pending in the various superior Courts, were ipso facto 
transferred to the corresponding division of the Supreme 
Court of South Africa. Presumably the appeal from tke 
judgement in the case in question would be regulated by the 
provisions of the Act, though the section is not quite explicit, 
and the effect of the Act is to alter a right possessed at the 
moment when the suit was initiated, possibly a right on 
the strength of which the suit was begun ; but in any case the 
Act explicitly does not affect pending appeals to the King in 
L Cf. The Government of South Africa, i. 66.