The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday August 12 1929

It would appear that the problem of the poor person’s lawyer in the High Court and the Court of Appeal is in a way of being satisfactorily settled by the devoted and self-denying efforts of the solicitors’ branch of the profession. [...] The Advocate after an examination of the facts he is in a position to prove and the law beaing on them comes to the conclusion rightly or wrongly that there is not the slightest chance of success in the case and tells the client so; the client insists upon his proceeing with the case and satisfies the conditions laid down by his Lordship with regard to fair and adequate fee etc. [...] It will at once be noticed that in all the passages from Halsbury quoted abovre isistence is laid upon the words " in the Courts in which he professes to practise "; And this differs to a very material extent from the words-used in the Allahabad cases the case is of a class which the lawyer is accustomed to do." In the former emphasis is laid on the Courts in the latter on the nature of the [...] The District Judge in the course of were entirely mistaken and the rule is made his explanation to the High Court said that absolute." he " was of opinion that a pleader acts iFrom a recital of the facts of this case properly when he refuses to accept a brief the observations in the course of the argfrom a man merely because their political meat and the judgment it will be apparent views [...] The principle at issue is one that it exactly covers the matter under diof considerable importance affeeting as it cussion in this article and lays down the does in a very intimate manner the adminirule in a manner directly opposed to the optratic.n of justice." lions expressed by the Chief Justice of When the matter came on for final heaAllahabad and by the Court of the Judicial in