Three judicial appointments of importance have taken place during the
past week. It was announced on Tuesday that Mr. Graham Murray, Secretary for Scotland, had been appointed to the vacant post of Lord Justice-General for Scotland,— an appointment which will cause a vacancy in a constituency which is almost certain to be lost to the Government at a by-election, as the Unionist majority in 1900 was only 195. Mr. Graham Murray, who is succeeded by the Marquis. of Linlithgow, is, further, to receive a peerage. Another judicial vacancy is caused by the resignation of Sir Francis Jenne, on the ground, we regret to say, of ill- health. He also is to be raised to the Peerage. Mr. Justice Barnes will be appointed President of the Admiralty, Probate, and Divorce Division; and the new Puisne Judge will be Mr. Hargrave Deane, K.C. On the whole, the appointments have given satisfaction to the legal world.
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