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...Cabinet. Last week the long, lean Viscount sat toying with a rolled up copy of the bill and faintly smiling, while the short, fat Baron accused him broadly of a maneuver to rig the judiciary and more precisely of specific machinations to obstruct the seniority rights of Lord Justice Slesser ("Slosher"), a rabid Socialist...
Warming to his accusations, Lord Chief Justice Hewart continued: "Last week Lord Justice Slesser came to me in a state of agitation. He told me he had been informed by the Master of the Rolls that he was not to preside in Appeal Court No. 2 and that, lest he should preside, the composition of both appeal courts would be varied [by the Sankey bill] contrary to the practice of the last 60 years...
Gripping the bench in front of him, Lord Hewart wrathfully went on: "I replied to Lord Justice Slesser that, as the permanent head of the Judiciary of this country. I could not advise him. but I could tell him what I would do if I was faced with any such menace-I WOULD DECLINE TO SIT! "Where is this sort of thing to end?" concluded the Lord Chief Justice, shaking an accusing forefinger at the Lord High Chancellor. "Where is it to end, My Lords? Will someone tell me one day that they are going to have a new revenue...
This would fix up Hewart's friend Slesser, and Hewart showed by his expression that he would assent. Sankey, in vast relief, snatched off his full wig, wiped his perspiring brow and exclaimed : "Lord Reading's suggestion saves everybody's face...
...Lord Mayor of London (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933) Widower Lord Chief Justice Hewart began his career as a reporter on London's Evening Star. Bachelor Lord High Chancellor Sankey is devoted to his sister with whom he goes on long walks and tramp ship cruises. Husband Lord Justice Slesser used to spell his name Schloesser, began life as an engineer, now hobnobs as a leading Fabian with George Bernard Shaw and has published volumes of Collected Verses...
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