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Evening Post, Issue 117, 24 June 1865, Page 2

Bona Fide Solicitors. — In a case of damages for assault (Cleary v. Armstrong) which came before the bench at the town-hall, yesterday, a pet son, calling himself Callanan, told the magistrates that he appeared as solicitor for the plaintiff. This assertion, coming from a stranger, caused some little commotion amongst the lawyers present, and his qualification to act as a solicitor was disputed. He produced a newspaper in which the name of Callanan figured as having passed a legal examination, but could produce nothing else in support of his pretensions. He was allowed, however, to proceed with the case, but when it was over and he app'ied for costs, Mr. IVfofcteram stated to the bench that he was in a position to prove, by the evidence of witnesses, that Mr. Callanan had within the last few days applied for a situation in Sandhurst as a reporter to one of the newspapers, under the name of M'Mahon. Costs in the case were not allowed, and Mr. Callanan was told not to appear before the bench again in the character he represented until he could prove to them that he had a bona fide claim to do so — Bendig* Advertiser, June 3.