Scope and Contents (28) ; D.W.4132.- ; The legal side of Settlement life.  The patients elect their own chiefs who form a bench and try all cases of misdemeanour.  Serious matters are referred to the Appeal Court, presided over by a European, and here you see this functioning.  The prisoner stands between policemen(patients), the chiefs sit at the side.  The healthy interpreter and clerks stand in the non-leper enclosire.  It is interesting to note the bench includes women. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN...