Importance of Honest and Efficient System of Justice Stressed in Reply heartiest congratulations of the British Bar Association were tendered in H.M, Supreme Court on May 14 to Sir Allan Mossop, Judge, on his knighthood in the Coropation Honours List, A large majority of members of the Association were present in court to support the acting Crown Advocate, Mr. John MeNeill, and the chairman of the British Bar Association, Mr. H. Browett, in express: the gratification of British lawyers in Shanghai on the honour conferred upon the Chief Judge of H.M. Supreme Court, Arrayed in their wigs and gowns, they sat in {wo rows in the front benches of the court, and stood as Sir Allan made his reply.
Judge P. Grant Jones sat beside his congratulatory speech, Mi 'MeNelll.said:—"My Lord, before the ordinary business of the' court com~ merices this morning, it Is with a ense. of great privilege that T rise to extend to Your Lordship, on behalf of the members of the Bar, our warm-fest congratulations upon your knighthood, since there are members of the Bar here to-day who have known Your Lordship much longer than 1. It is right and' fiting, in view of Your Lordship's distinguished career, that this honour should. have beer conferred on so memorable on ocean slon as the coronation of His Majesty King George VI.
Sir Allan during the ceremony.
"This, I think I may say, Is the right manner In which to look upon the high honour which has been bestowed upon me as the figure head, and to that extent T trust that you will alt feel that you can share in It At the same time, I wish to thank you all for attending here In such Humber to-day to support the congratulations and good wishes tendered fo my wife and myself. Gentlemen, T thank you most deep lawyers present' in court were as follows:—
Many Years Public Service "Your Lordship was no stranger when we welcomed you on your first taking your seat upon the Bench of this court. You had already during many years rendered In China valu able public service, and during these years the members of the Bar and the British community sri China had many opportunities of observing ever growing appreciation the thoroughness and integelty which Drought to your duties, It was th fore with & keen sense of pleasure, and a tively anticipation, that we welcomed Your Lordship to the Bench February, 1094, "During the ensiting years you have, It 1 may say so with respect, most strictly maintained that high standard of Justice and rectitude which the Brilish people so firmly. demand throughout "the world, You have not, "in putting on "the friend, put off "the judge:. yot your friends are legion, and 7 am confident that Tam voicing the sentiments not nly of the Bar but also of the general community when 1 say that we have one and all been personally de-Highted to learn the news of Your Lordship's preferment, "My Lord, I am privileged, on be half of the members of the Bar, to tender our most sincere congratilations upon the honour, "50. richly deserved, which His Majesty has been pleased to bestow upon Your Lord-recognition of high sermndered to the administration tice in His Majesty's courts in our earnest hope that you both, if T may include Lady Moscop, may enjoy for tong the dignity of your rane and oice.*
Mr. Browett said that, as chairman of the British Bar Association, "he wished on behalf of the members of the Bar to associate himself with the remarks which the acting Crown Advocate had addressed to His Lordship, Tt was a privilege for him to do this, "He trusted that #tis Lordship would be long spared to preside over 1M, Supreme Court for China.
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