Square Dealings in the Strand
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CELICITATIONS must be expressed towards the reconstituted Appeal Tribunal. Sir Archibald McKinstry and Mr. E. S. ShrapnellSmith, C.B.E., with their chairman Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, M.C., form a sane and, when required, sympathetic unit of justice. The first two cases on the cause list were as different as chalk and cheese, and it was noticeable that the Tribunal adapted its procedure and demeanour to fit.
The first appeal was one of those affairs involving delicate judicial principles such as the tfecise definition of "exceptional circumstances." A battery of, advocates was at work. Precedents were quoten and re-quoted. Even "Enstone" was dragged out of some backwater of the Act, albeit with apologies! Then was the chairman. like Shakespeare's justice, "full of wise saws and modern instances."
The second appeal was one in which an ex-Serviceman, casualty of the landing in Sicily. conducted his own case, without any knowledge of litigation. The Tribunal dissolved from a legal precision-machine into three wise human beings telling a fellow creature just how and why he, unfortunately, could not claim the right to make a living in a certain way.
Halifax House might very reasonably claim to be the "home of the square deal."