Nanking to Adopt System of Establishing a Supreme Court Nanking, Oct. 18.
The Government Council, upon the petition of the Ministry of Justice, will shortly issue a mandate order. jing the "abolition of the office of Provincial Commissioner for Justi fand the adoption of the Supreme Court system in its place. The petition, which was submitted by the Ministry of Justice in the form of a memorandum, recommending reforms in the organization of the courts in the provinces under Nationalist control, came up for dis. Jeussion at the seventh meeting o€ the Government Council held yesteeday morning.
The judicial system of the Na+ tionalist Government hitherto, has [proved to be intricate and confusing, ich, the memorandum points out is not facilitating the efficient administration of justice. The judicial system adopted by the different provinces, for instance, is not uniform. In some provinces, there are established offices for Provincial Commissioners for Justice, while in others, where there are "no such the so-called Judicial Preratory Bureaux are installed in their places. The same confusion also exists in the nomenclature the tribunals. Courts which in some provinces are called Courts of Trial and Procuratorates, are calla differently in other provinces, Appointment of Judges With regard to the ways of apointments of judges, the, memo further stated, the same Inck of Uniformity prevails, "Some judg' are appointed by the Provincial Government, some by Higher Courts and some by the military authorities who happen to control the regi The grades of the Courts are like: wise not others have the system of four courts with three trials, but in vitiier case there lacking the Supreme Court as the final court of appeal." The lack the highest court has caused extrem Jeonfusion; many cases which coul have oth: court of such authority are now left pending.
The confusion is still further accentuated by the irregular applic tion of substantive and adjective lags in the different provinces. The whole thing, the memorandum concluded, is literally a mess, that oven experienced judges and judicial officials are at a loss to condjtet themselves under such conditions, If this state of affairs should be allowed to continue further, the unity and_wnitor Nationalist Governmes ever the The Government Council, in agree mont with the memorandum, decided the meeting to abolish the offices of Provincial Commissioners for Justice, and adopt In its place the Supreme Court system. With the present system, a Supreme Court will be established in Nanking, the final and highest judicial organ lover and above all" the district Courts and High Courts of the Nationalist. provinces.
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