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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1933, Page 4

■At the- annual dinner of the Australian and Now Zealand Society of International Law, in Sydney, Mr Justice Owen said that the tendency was for a large number of men to go into tile law schools, and too quickly into the profession without having acquired a knowledge of the ethics of it. Among those who entered the law school there were those who looked to the profession, nob as an honourable one of public service, but as one merely from which they were going to make money. The same trouble had arisen in the case of men entering the medical profession. The ethical side should he the most important part of the training of the law schools.. Sir Joint Pedcn. Dean of the Faculty of I;aw at the University of Sydney, said .ho agreed with Air .Justine Owen, hut a number of his views had no application of the existing facts. The Law School of the University of Sydney had, for a number of yc'r.rs, attached the utmost importance to inculcating a knowledge of legal ethics. He was in accord with Air Justice Owen on the question of the vital importance of a man who was going to the Bar reading in a barrister’s chambers. The high ideals and traditions of the Bar had been handed down largely from the men there to their pupils. Without that system there was

the great risk of losing the tradition and the* spirt of the Ear. The most important duty of a law school was to impart to the student tlie conviction that in the law were fundamental principles which represented the wisdom of generations of able and upright men.