Welsh In English Courts

Welsh In English Courts

The Welsh language is beginning,

after many long years, to at least find

recognition in the English courts of

law. Recently, for instance, at the

Anglesey quarter sessions, Sir Richard

Bulkley Williams ordered his summing

up to the petty jury to be translated

into Welsh in every case, while a lit-

tle before that date, at Carnarvon, J. E.

Graves, an Englishman, who was ac-

quainted with the language of Gwalia,

followed some evidence given in Welsh

very closely, and interpreted it when

necessary for the benefit of a cross-

examining counsel who had not mas-

tered the vernacular.