forms Suggested To the Editor of the "Near-Cursa Dany News"
Si—The following extracts from "truth" should be of interest to all those who are unfortunate enough to have to take-part in any proceedings in HM's Police Court (also Supreme Court):
"Truth" quotes the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) in a case at the Herttorshire Assizes:
'The spectacle of @ Judge laborious ly discharging the' mere task capable amanuensis fs an anachroniam' which' ought to" have been abolished Tong ago. Since the Court of Criminal Appeal was instituted an ficial shorthand note of every trial fon indictment has been provided.
civil actions. the parties them selves decide whether they. will incur the expense of employing. shorthand writers, and usually they do #0. What ave regarded as important cases.
As Lord Hewart observed, the Judge is obliged to waste time in making a full record in long-hand of a mass of evidence in twenty cases, simply because any one of them may conceivably go to appeal—"Give "us fan oficial shorthand writer in every case of nisi prius," said his lordship, "and you will soon have heard the last of the cry that his Majesty's Judges are not, in point of number, [suffeient." It is an overdue reform, but It now seems to be probable that it will soon be carried out, After witnessing the dreary proceedings in the Police Court the other day, I feel sure that everyone taking pari in them, from the Magistrate, Tawyers, witnesses and defendant, let alone the onlookers, wilt piously hope that the reform will come quickly.
Procress.
Shanghai, Mar, 21.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.