Lawyers in the Making.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 8

Lawyers in the Making.

It is usual for most Bar students as well as members of the Bar, to acquire the wily- arts of advocacy and skill and cunning in the examination and cross-examination of witnesses in amateur courts of justice, presided over by an amateur judiciary. These mock courts of justice are provided by a society called "The Blue Bag," which has been formed to supply means by which not only law students, but fully-fledged, waiting-for-a-brief barristers can be trained to conduct cases in practically similar circumstances and with the snine procedure as in a real court of justice. The society, which is very select, meets every week during the lawsitting, and dialectical contests take place upon small points of law. x The members then get to serious business, and nominate the judge for the evening, who takes his seat on the bench and proceeds, with judicial dignity, to hear suppostitious cases.