THE LEAST HE CAN DO.
A correspondent, who himself "Conservative," writing in the "Dominion," remarks sarcastically: "A lawyer is a gentleman by Act of Parliament: the least he can do is to act as one." The correspondent in question criticises the manner in which New Zealand lawyers crossexamine witnesses, and says he would like to see some of the good old Conservative methods of Old England instituted here. He concludes: —"It would be better for the law, better for all concerned, for there is something contemptible in the attitude of a paid attorney trying to bully and brow-beat a witness who has been unfortunate enough to see something occur that he has had to give evidence upon."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3005, 30 September 1908, Page 4
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117THE LEAST HE CAN DO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3005, 30 September 1908, Page 4
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