§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT KILMUIR)My Lords, in rising to move the Motion in my name I can give your Lordships in three sentences the effect of these proposed Amendments. The object of the Amendments to Standing Order I is to reduce from six months to three months the period of time from the date of the order of the Court of Appeal during which appeals may be presented to your Lordships' House. The object of the Amendments to Standing Orders IV, VI and IX is to do away with the necessity for printing cases and documents to an appeal and to enable litigants to lithograph or duplicate their Cases and documents. The effect of these two changes, to which my learned friends and I have given careful attention, will be to bring appeals on more quickly and to reduce the cost to litigants. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the following Amendments be made to the Standing Orders regulating Judicial Business:—
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The following Standing Order shall be substituted for Standing Order I, namely—
("I. Ordered, that no petition of appeal be received by this House unless the same be lodged in the Parliament Office for presentation to the House within the period of three months from the date of the last order or interlocutor appealed from:
Provided that in the case of orders or interlocutors made or pronounced before the first day of April, 1959, the said period shall be six months.")
§ Standing Order IV, line 5, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order IV, line 6, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order VI (1), line 1, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order VI (1), line 5, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order VI (2), line 3, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order VI (3), line 1, leave out ("printed")
544§ Standing Order IX, line 17, leave out ("printed")
§ Standing Order IX, line 24, leave out ("printed").—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and ordered accordingly.