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advise as to the training, education, and war organization of 
the military forces of the Crown in every part of the Empire. 
It was also agreed that the Committee of Imperial Defence 
should undertake to advise on any local questions in regard 
bo which expert assistance was deemed desirable, and when- 
sver so desired a representative of any Colony which might 
ask for advice should be summoned to attend as a member 
of the Committee during the discussion of the questions 
raised. 
The question of judicial appeals * was discussed at great 
length, but it was not found possible by the Imperial Govern- 
ment to accept the resolution of the Commonwealth of 
Australia in favour of the establishment of one Imperial 
Court of Appeal. It was agreed, however, that the practice 
and procedure of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 
should be laid down in the form of a code of rules and regula- 
tions, and simplified so as to control expense and minimize 
delays, while as far as possible the conditions on which 
appeals were permitted should be made equal, and some 
portion of His Majesty's prerogative to grant special leave 
bo appeal in cases where there existed noright of appeal should 
be delegated to the Courts of the Colonies. It was also 
agreed, on the motion of General Botha, that when Colonies 
were federated or a Court of Appeal was established for a 
group of Colonies geographically connected, it should be 
competent for the Legislatures of those Colonies to abolish 
any existing right of appeal from the Supreme Courts to the 
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; that the decision 
of such a Court of Appeal should be final subject to the right 
of the Court to grant leave to appeal in such cases as might 
be laid down by the statutes under which it was established, 
but that the right to appeal by special leave from the Privy 
Council should not be curtailed.® 
See Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, pp. 94-120, 123-8. Minor questions as to 
arms and ammunition, exchange of officers. cadets, military schools, and 
rifle clubs were discussed. ¢ Ibid., pp. 200-26. 
3 This was embodied in the South Africa Act, 1909 (9 Edw. VII. c. 9). 
See Part VI, chap. iii; Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, p. 230.