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Lord Lansdowne ended his speech by some very sound remarks

as to the composition of the Committee, which he desired should be thoroughly judicial in character. Nothing was said as to the names of the Committee, but it is rumoured that Lord Halsbury, as an ex-Lord Chancellor, may be chairman. The appointment would, we believe, command the confidence of lawyers of all shades of opinion, for though Lord Halsbury as a politician was a strict party man, no one has ever challenged his absolute fairness and sincerity of purpose

when he was fulfilling any judicial function. He was un- doubtedly one of the ablest Judges who ever presided in the final Court of Appeal.

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