DUNEDIN.
"Wednesday.-' • : The Gfuardian has a caustic article on the legal profession. It complains of? the want of a healthy tone of public opinion to prevent scenes, like .those''which occurred in the ease of Maccassey.v. Bell: one practitioner calling-another a scoundrel, or threatening to p;ull another-*snose, and winds up—"We, have .heard reports of a barrister, defending a, prisoner for life, obtaining an adjournment; of the Court for ten minutes,: during a critical part' o£ the speech for /the: defence/ arid: Withdrawing with the prisoner into the anteroom and literally extorting from him, by threatening to throw up his brief, a fee of £50, in addition^ to what he previously received, namely, a hundred guineas. As the matter stands, thepUblic has no guarantee that such a seemingly.' incredible "transaction'did ;i not actually take place..',' ,He promises, to return to the subject. '■''■'■■
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2013, 17 June 1875, Page 2
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140DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2013, 17 June 1875, Page 2
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