In the first place the Disciplinary' Committee was improperly constituted according to the law for the! setting-up of such bodies. Further, when a quorum had to be got together, a farther illegality was committed by including Chen Ho-shen on the Committee—in other words Judge Loo's p was made one of his judges. asks Judge Loo "could such a judzment be just and fait In the third place Liang Jen-chie, fan ex-judge of the Provisional Court, was allowed to file complaints against Judge Loo, on which the Disciplinary Committee took action without the accused being given an opportunity to answer. On this he writes:—
"Although on seeing Judge Liang's charges published in the papers on July 10 your petitioner at once sent ina reply, it was already made before this of no avail, since the decision had'
reply Teached the Committee."
Without Justice or Fairness Judge Loo. then proceeds to traverse the accusations—made inst him (with these our readers re familiar) to show their trumpery nature and lack of foundation land he concludes:
"To sam up, the Committee not being legally constituted and its procedure being in many instances irregular and improper, these considerations alone would' have rendered the whole proceeding null and void, but the Comiitteo has also made decision contrary to evidence and facts of the ease which have robbed it of any pretence to justice and fairness.
"Considering that the ease is the firat of its kind brought before a Judicial Disciplinary Committee for adjudication since the Nationalist Government completed its national revolution, which was to end the regime of military despotism and to usher ig a reign of the supremacy of Jaw, it is the sacred mission for the Committee to handle the case carefully and conscientiously in order to. show the world that justice is obtain. able under the new order of things. But the Committee has singularly failed in its task and forfeited the trust of the people "Not only was a biased and prejudiced man sent to perforsh the official investigation, but the decision was rushed through within a few days without careful of China "Should your petitioner abide by the decision rendered by the Committee that has not been proerly constituted, your petitioner would feel he had failed in his duty to uphold the law of thy country and had injured the fai nomic of the people's Government as an arbiter of right and justi Your petitioner therefore respect fully prays that the decision of the Disciplinary Committee be set aside and a new committee be appointed to deal with the case.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.