LICENSE OF COUNSEL.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

LICENSE OF COUNSEL.

To the Editor. Sir,—-I a citizen who has never shrunk from fulfilling all the duties devolivng upon me as such, feel that the remarks of some of our lawyers in their unmerciful attacks upon their fellow citizens who do not leave their business, which at the time may be pressing, and rush, at the opening of the Supreme Court, and otter themselves as jurors—are most unjustifiable. Lawyers understand too well their advantage over persons following a different _professiou or trade from themselves. Knowing that they are exempt, and rightly so, from the duties incumbent on other citizens as jurymen, makes them’ unmerciful to poor unfortunate jurors who, possibly from pressing business, or family engagements, request that they be relieved from sitting on the jury in some particular case. Ithinkthat every lawyer, Or that honorable (?) RV?. sion, seeing that they are exempt from sitting on juries, should be made to contribate in some other way to the public good. I cannot see why they should escape the burdens placed by the Jury Act on their fel-low-citizens, without rendering some equivalent. I therefore suggest that a Bill be passed at the ensuing session of the General Assembly making it compulsory on all lawyers to put in an appearance at every fire occurring throughout the city in which they reside, and to be under the command of the captains of the fire brigade, thus giving them the privilege of contributing their quota to the public service. lam, &c., t, , ■ Cerberus. Dunedin, May 9.