There was full attendance of the Bar at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning when Mr. Justice Skinner Turner took his seat ae Assistant Judge. Mrs, Skinner Turner and Mr, H. P. Wilkinson occupied seats upon the-dais and the Crown Advocate, Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, formally welcomed the new judge The Crown Advocate said:—May it please your Lordship, the Bar welcome you to Shanghai. It is the earnest wish of the Bar that there should be at all times two judges of this Court 20 that, in the temporary absence of either, there should be one judge available to carry on the work of the Court. For the hard work done as as sistant judge since the departure of our respected judge and friend, Sir Frederick Bourne, we have to thank Mr. King—work, which we hope will meet with recognition. But it is not merely as filling a vacant post that we welcome you, we do 80 on account of your record and attainments. As " member of the Foreign Office Judicial Service since 1900, having had judicial and Consular experience in Uganda and Mombasa, having been a judge of first instance in H. M. Court for Zanzibar and as judge of the Appeal Court for East Africa and a judge of H. M. Court of Siam, you come to us with a wide experience from which H. M. subjects in China resorting to this Court will benefit You have the further advantage of a working knowledge of the difficulties of extraterritorial jurisdiction, a knowledge gained not only as a British judge but a9 an honoured adviser of the Siamese Government and as a judge of the highest Siamese Court of Appeal. We regret the absence to-day of Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, who is administering justice elsewhere, but we felt we could not postpone our welcome to you.
The Assistant Judge:—Mr. Crown Advocate and members of the Bar. May I tender you my most grateful thanks for your welcome to me here to-day and also to you, Mr. Crown Advocate, for the words you have used in voicing the membere of the Bar and to all of you for your attendance here on this occasion, when I first take my seat in this Court I am aware—fully aware—that the problems involved in the administration of justice in an ordinary Court are enhanced by the difficulties and the peculiarity involved in a system of extraterritoriality, and that must necessarily be the more so in a case in times like the present of international stress and strain. To me, therefore, who have for some years now been out of the special class of work administered in these Courts,
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