After Question
Time, Speaker Lockwood Smith allowed an application to
debate the Government’s decision to accept the resignation
of Justice Wilson.
Dr Smith said the resignation was a
matter of importance which should be debated, but warned MPs
not to attack the judiciary as he wished to maintain the
constitutional understandings that separate the business of
Parliament and the
courts.
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