London, June 7.
Two of the most important judgments ever given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Councll—the highest tribunal in the British Empire—were delivered to-day by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Sankey.
The effect of the judgments is:
1.—Canada has the right to abolish appeais to the Privy. Council in criminal matters, 2—~The Irish Free State has the power, singe the passing of the Statute of West minster, to abolish the right of appeal to the Privy Council from onns in South: ern Ireland, The Lord Chancellor said that the Anglo-Irish Treaty preserved the right of citizens of the Free State petition His Majesty-in-Council The effect of the Statute of Westminster was to remove the fetter on the Irish Free Stale Legislature, which could now pass acts repugnant 'Yo Imperial acts and, in the case under consideration, it' had done 60.
Viscount Sankey said that the simplest way of Stating the situation was to say that the Statute of Westminster gave the Free State power under which it could abrogate the Treaty and that, '2 matter of law, of that power.
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