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M y + i@araen. 1 SiL ... } aa it | VEXATIOUS LITIGANTS | 4 | ! BARRED FROM GOURT UNDER BILL IN HOUSE 1 d ids ! Attorney--General Cites John, Berry and Sophie | Cohen 1 1 OBJECTION BY SINCLAIR| sem cce« | Attorney--General Price's "Vexatiousl Proceeding Act'"--a bill designed, as' Colonel Price puts it, "to stop those | people who are constantly bringing | court actions without any grounds for lthem"---was given second reading by 'the Ontario Legislature yesterday, with lonly one voice, that of Liberal Leader | Willliam E. N. Sinclair, being raised | against it. ' _ Colonel Price explained that the legislation sought to improve the ad-- ; ministration of justice, and that, except for some phraseology that might be altered, the bill and its purport had been approved by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Quite Unnecessary. The Attorney--General named John * A .. e Berry and Sophie Cohen as two of the 'Y' M type of pceople the legislation sought to lq PCMA 13 L, restrain. Mr. Sinclair told the Houss 6 that the act was "going a long way'" in even Gdebarring Berry and Miss Cohen. He felt that such actions as i Berry had from time to time brought to the courts would never have crop-- * o m ped up had some responsible solicitcr hbhad the say in issuing the writ. He felt I that the legislation propcesed by the f Attorney--General would be quite un-- necessary if the writ issuing were left BEING lDERED to a solicitor, for without some grounds 10 solicitor, he argued, would attempt mnuey se to bring action. In jocular vein, he re-- * s .ca.lled that Berry had "gone after" the Oshawa _ Suggestion _ Will Government, and had even on one oc-- | « casion had appeared before the Public | Come Before Onta"O Accounts Committee of the Legislature, ' Cabinet g;r:iiecrh had "finished" him in quick | 'The O "";.;'G.o'ernme')' is COnSid-- Premier Ferguson observed that -- ex'l'lAg'»fa";ir;';)}" & 'pmpos;alu 'f'r*:{"t'he Berry's action, which had originally ams Phanmie, M lan Hleg been brought egainst the City Hall au-- Ooshawa Chamber 01. Commgxce that a thorities, didn't stop with the Govern-- ' central bureau of information should ment, but had been launched against ?e,, estabhshe'd to poit 01."' to mant« the Lisutenant--Governor when the | facturers desirous of establishing plants Government refused to "decapitate" | in Canada, the benefits of Ontario. € Is ' £ hPLi \ The various Ontario municipalities City Hall officials And from the Lieu-- i ue R s tenant--Governor Berry turned his at-- | would be expected to co--operate with s s i the bureau in supplying information | tention to the Governor--General at Ot-- about their own localities. tawa. | The proposal has received the ap-- Need for Restraint. | proval of the Ontario Associated Boards Mr. Ferguson said that the bill be-- | of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, fore the House was not intended to re-- | which presented it to the Government. strain legitimate actions. Nor was it lPremicr Ferguson has requested the uniusual legislation, as Mr. Sinclair as-- ,| Oshawa Chamber to prepare full infor-- saverated. Over in England there was "' mation on the project, and to submit a precedent for it. While indictments it to the Cabinet. of the Berry kind did not happen every A recent conference with represent-- day, there was need, he felt, for re-- | atives of the Ontario Chamber of Com-- straining them when they C'1 arise. merce on the subject was attended by Russell Nesbitt (Conservative, Toron-- | Premier -- Ferguson, Attorney--General | to--Bracondale), spsaking from close | Price, Hon. Charlese McCrea, Minister | familiarity with the Berry case, stated ! of Mines, and Hon. William Finlay-- ; that the writ in the first place had been ' iso'n. Minister of Lands and Forests. | issued by a solicitor. At the conference, it was pointed out w _2 e kz me nnennn mmz ns by the Chamber of Commerce that the | * | Manitoba Industrial Board, backed by | the Manitoba Government, had been doing much to persuade industries to | ; locate in that Province. I s \| sxmmemmmemememememmemmmmmmmmmmmemmmmmmemmrmmmemmemmmmmmmmene . |