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the value of $10,000 (in place of $4,000 as at present), and
cases of special importance as affecting the liberty of the
subject. Mr. Foy, however, in the course of discussion, ad-
mitted that it was not possible legally to limit by provincial
law appeals to the Supreme Court, and declared that a change
of practice by the Privy Council rendered it unnecessary to
limit appeals thither,and his Act passed without the proposed
limitations. In any case the Act would have been invalid
if the Judicial Committee had chosen to hear appeals by
special leave, or to regulate by Order in Council under the
Act of 1844! the right to appeal.? Ontario indeed has of
late had no cause to complain of the Privy Council.
§ 3. Tur CONSTITUTION OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as now
constituted 3 consists of the Lord President, the Lord High
Chancellor, all Privy Councillors who hold or have held any
of the offices of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Lord Chief
Justice of England, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice
of the Court of Appeal, Judge of any of the late Courts of
Queen’s Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, Probate, or
Admiralty, or of Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, all past Presi-
dents of the Council, and Lord Chancellors, together with
any two others, being Privy Councillors, whom the Crown
may think fit to appoint from time to time, a provision
under which Lord Haldane of Cloan and that distinguished
Indian lawyer Syed Ameer Ali, now sit, and such members
of His Majesty’s Privy Council as for the time being hold or
have held any of the offices described in the Appellate
Jurisdiction Acts, 1876 and 1887, as High Judicial Offices.
These Acts include any judge of the superior Courts in Great
Britain and Ireland, and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
' 7 & 8 Vict. ¢. 69, s. 1. See Ontario Act 1909, c. 52.
* See Conadion Annual Review, 1909, p- 368. and for a eulogy of the
Privy Council, ibid., pp. 178, 179.
* See 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 92; 3&4 Will. IV. c. 41, £8. 1,30; 6 & 7 Vict, c. 38;
14 & 15 Vict. c. 83,8.16; 20 & 21 Viet. c. 77,8. 115; 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35,
sched. ; 39 & 40 Vict. c. 59. ss. 6 and 14: 44 & 45 Viet. ¢. 3; 50 & 51
Viet. c. 70.
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