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...Solomonic wisdom of U.S. judges may sometimes be open to question. But even critics agree that the bench is trying. Some recent decisions...
...Boer festival celebrating the fifth anniversary of South Africa's resignation from the Commonwealth. In Cape Town, Parliament droned on in the third week of its new session, as Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd sat, chin in palm, in his green leather seat on the government's front bench...
What the Prime Minister clearly needed was a way to shift attention from the vote. He came up with a dandy. Just as the House policemen were crying "Lock the doors!" in preparation for the vote, a news dispatch was passed down the Conservatives' Front Bench. What they read caught the Tories-and the nation-by surprise. Said one admirer of Wilson's fast footwork: "The press can only carry one banner headline...
...responsibilities that go with the job." This lament by Seattle Superior Court Judge Eugene Wright underscores the surprising fact that no U.S. law school or bar association has ever provided any training for present or future trial judges. When a lawyer is appointed or elected to the bench, he is terrifyingly on his own, and is expected to acquire the judicial craft by osmosis, or simply by virtue of his black robe...
Eastern Branch. Judge Wright and other faculty members (ten judges, two professors of law) have tried to remedy that lack at the National College of State Trial Judges on the Reno campus of the University of Nevada. The stu dent body consists of 96 recent recruits to the bench in 45 states; they range from a Philadelphia Negro judge to a jurist from Fairbanks, Alaska. First proposed in 1961 by Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, the school has been financed by the W. K. Kellogg and Max C. Fleischmann foundations, may soon have an Eastern branch as well...