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said, " I am not prepared to admit
English law to defeat the express intention of a native testator. I hold that under the will the property in question became a 'family property' as effectively as if the children had succeeded to it under native law and custom in intestacy". In another case, he said his view was that where the parties to a cause or matter are natives the onus is upon the party who opposes the application of such native customary law to satisfy the court that it should not be applied.
225:, killing 47 women and injuring 31. In January 1930 Paul was a member of the Aba Commission of Inquiry, where a panel of British judges held hearings and reported on the incident. Paul said, “No one listening to the evidence given before us could have failed to be impressed by the intelligence, the power of exposition, the directness and the mother-wit which some of the leaders exhibited in setting forth their grievances. And the lessons learnt from their demonstrations should be taken to heart.”
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There had long been strong differences of opinion between the administration and the judiciary in
Tanganyika over the court system. Judges thought their legal training and courtroom skills made them best qualified to run the courts, while administrators thought their local experience and (in their
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Paul sat on the West
African Court of Appeal. He had to deal with cases where there was a conflict between English law and local customary law. In a case where a testator had left a property to be "family property" he refused to accept that the shares of the children could be sold separately. He
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In June 1945 Sir George Graham Paul, Chief
Justice, Sierra Leone was confirmed as Chief Justice of His Majesty's High Court, Tanganyika. Attorney General C McFurness-Smith welcomed Paul in a ceremony at the High Court of Tanganyika.
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Most of the judges in
Nigeria in the colonial era were administrators, and were not independent of the Executive. George Graham Paul, who served in the High Court from 1933 to 1939, was a rare exception.
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receded the administration began to take action. The outspoken
Justice Reginald Montagu Cluer was transferred to Jamaica, and the governor asked for an outsider to replace Webb. The well-qualified
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as Chief
Justice of Sierra Leone. Webb had recently been appointed Chief Justice of Tanganyika. On 16 July 1943 the king bestowed knighthood on George Graham Paul, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
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On 12 October 1906 it was reported that Mr George Graham Paul, son of Mr George Brodie Paul, solicitor, Dundee, had qualified as M.A. of the
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264:Mark Wilson
219:Women's War
184:Early years
174:Graham Paul
155:Nationality
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630:"Personal"
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326:Hagen 2015
253:Tanganyika
243:A. H. Webb
178:G. G. Paul
130:1887-11-15
845:Ramadhani
86:1945–1951
82:In office
46:1937–1939
42:In office
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