LEGAL PROFESSION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 156, 15 April 1936, Page 6

LEGAL PROFESSION.

CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Barristers from all parts of the Dominion are attending the first Legal Conference held in six years. The inaugural address was given this morning by Mr H. F. O’Leary (Wellington), president of the New Zealand Law Society. The Hon H. G. R. Mason (AttorneyGeneral) gave a short address on delegated legislation, and Air Cornish (So-licitor-General) also attended. Air O’Leary, in the course of his address, referred to the defeat, during the passage of their Bill, of one amendment designed to ensure* that legal work would be done only by the legal profession, but it was intended in the near future to bring forward this provision, it being hoped that recognition that it was a sound trade union principle would assuro its passage. (Laughter.) Mr O’Leary referred at length to the provision made by the profession to right any wrongs to clients by defaulting members of the profession. He also claimed that during these years of difficulty the profession had not been lacking in public spirit nor sympathy for the distressed. Perusal of the average .practitioner’s accounts would reveal a large amount of gratuitous or inadequately-remunerated work done.