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\N 1.3 rc h 19 & . * v very : few delays have occurred. % Chegque Produced:rsyns Judges looking after appeals and eleven 'trial Judges, making in all A nineteem, as the court stands at a * afi present. i] ' ! O 5 ncmmny C3 g @ C Three Form Quorum. "The new act provides for one Court s 4 S + £ of Appeal of eight judges, three of : e F § whom shal! be a quorum. The court l E'EC h s EE E g'z & ~~E 4 £--1 can sit in cdd numbers, three, five or 3 CE E.: M 8 Es _ NC seven. This will give the opportunity % for three Juvdiges to hear less impor-- w : 2e m ooo . tant cases, five Judges to hear more outstaimdi?lg and difficult cases, and f # k occasionally a court of seven, to hear Thoroug h I n uU Ir y Ly BILL CUTS NUMBER :gs%s where pciints of lahw are involved % *' * y 4 at are very far--reaching. Commission Lrged Inte "The a;cgt lwi.\l come into force on s t" » > ." Whole System of Ex-- OF APPE AL JUDGES hok s *) 19KL afier dong iMevstion penditures < Under the Northern Development FROM TEN TO EIGHT Department | j FINLAYsSON REApy More Wil Be Available to | * « To INnvEsTIGATE _ Soeed Up Circuit o nenevndenaneles | Work f Blunt demand for a Commission in-- | vestigation into the whols system of}ACT IN FORCE SEPT' '| expenditures under the Departmont| of Northern Development was made in : { the Legislature yesterday by William |. Aftorncy--General Price's long and E. N. Sinclair, Opposition Leader, fol--| Widely heralded bill to amend the lowing his production of a cheque al-- | Judicature Act of the Province so as lsgedly made payable out of Govern-- to decrease the number of Appellate ment funds as wages to a Porquis, Judges and make them available for ' Junction -- man _ named Melnick, Crcuit work was brought down to who, according to Mr. Sinclair's the Legislature yesterday. . claims, is not working for the Gov--| _ TDs bill made its first bow to ty» ernment at all. Ontario House at the 1930 session. Mr. Sinclair characterized such a| When Premier Ferguson ushered it situation as "loose work"--a situation | in and just as quickly ushered it out, which, if obtaining at ons point, | in the face. it is und>rstood, of con-- might likewiss obiain at others--a | siderable opposition from the judi-- condition of affairs that could only, he | ciary. _ contended, be mt by a thorough in-- In explanation of this year's pro-- . quiry. posed amendments, Colonel Price yes-- Signed and Countersigned. terd%y issued the appended state-- The cheque in question was signed -- Ment: n irased by D. Lough, engineer, and counter-- The present constitution of the signed by O. E. Lonery, auditor, dated Supreme Court of Ontario provides March 16, and made payable at the fOr nineteen Judges. Nine of these Imperial Bank of Canada, Matheson. Judges go on circuit throughout the Similar cheques, it was Mr. Sinclair's Province and belong to the High Court belief, had been received by Melnick I%ivis:ont It is their duty to preside in January and February, although @5 the jury and non--jury sittings of his previous connection with depart-- the Supreme_ Court in the various mental employ had terminated in De-- County and district towns throughout cember. There was no doubt in his Ontario. There is a Chief Justice mind, he said, that Melnick was the Of the High Court Division. man, for the cheque had afterward The other branch of the Supreme been turned in by him on a board bill. Court is known as the Appellate Divi-- f Hon. William Finlayson, Minister Sion, and it is comprised of ten of Northern Development, assured the Judges, divided into two courts of five Houss that if Mr. Sinclair turned C@ch. One of these courts is presided over a copy of the cheque to him-- Over by the Chief Justice of Ontario; a request which has since been grant-- the other, Appellate Division, is pre-- . sd--he would investigate at once and Sided over by the Chief Justice of the recommend criminal action, if such Setond Division. The whole nineteen -- action was required. "If there has Judges, as indicated above, form the 3 been any improper issue of a chequs," Supreme Court of Ontario, and are said hs. "the matter will be turned Presided over by the Chief Justice over to the District Crown Attornsy O the Supreme Court. $ < for prosecution." Speedy Trials Needed. Grounds for Criticism . 't',It has be';.'nd felt t;ll:iant t{xe;rel: werfi > ; is ir--the : not enough Judges g trial wor. S;.I:::g I;?rq;l qye';l;i(ft.g)r%k:fi ai'n the| throughout Ontario to enable the Ho: when Mr. Finlayson moved | Pusiness in the various county towns Euse * his mi j to be handled expeditiously, and that second reading of his bill providing | ; id be Wise 10 h aditional $5,000.000 for Northern development fg Mag o Pyotinn Caie _ » arawin the Judges for that work. 'Justice de-- programing. _ After drawing layed is often justice denied,' and it chequse incident to the House's atten-- is very important that the trial work > tion, Mr. Sinclair asked if there WAS | pe proceeded with as rapidiy as poSs-- any reason why the Opposition should | sipie, and that these trials take place not constantly be finding fault with | within the county jurisdiction. expenditures in the North if cheques "The Appellate work has been car-- issued out of the Government's @&¢~ | ried on by ten Judges. Many have * countable funds were to be misdirect~-- | thought that this was a little top-- s ed as in the case of Melnick. 'Thg heavy, considering that only nine Hcnorabie Minister," he added, "mus' || Judges were provided for trial work. realize that we have grounds for our ||It has, accordingly, been decided to 3 § criticism." cut down the number of Judges in Claiming that an ordinary Public | | Appeal to eight, and, as vacancies oc-- Accounts inquiry did not provide suffi-- | teur, to appoint two more Judges for cient scope for a complete investiga-- | trial work. % tion, he demanded that a Commission "In giving consideration to this -- be put on the job by the Government plhase of the matter one must keen in to clean up "the loose work There." mind that the Appellate Courts must "surely," said he, "if your office up he\r appeals not only from the High z there can spend money in this way, Court, but from the County and Di-- it won't take long to get rid of the vision Court, from arbitrations, etc ¢3,000,000 you are asking." It is also important to know that this F P e Pa ctnr c aninnimiennmnonme rrenennecnnin angumn on work has been kept up to date, and &