At the Imperial Conference on Monday.the principal sub- ject discussed
was the practicability of instituting a single Supreme Court for the whole Empire. A motion was intro- duced by the Australian Government proposing that such a Court should be created as a substitute for the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The New Zealand Government also proposed that such a Court ought to contain judicial representatives of the oversee dominions. After a long discussion it was agreed that there should be for the whole Empire one final Court of Appeal in two divisions— one for the United Kingdom, consisting of the same persons who were now entitled to sit in the House of Lords, and the other for the overseas dominions, consisting of the persons now entitled to sit on the Judicial Committee, strengthened by two English judges and such further additions as might be agreed to. The New Zealand proposal for permanent representatives of the Dominions was not considered practicable.
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