LEGAL CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 11

LEGAL CONFERENCE

"PBOFESSION NOT IN PUBLIC SPIBIT" (press associatiqk teuksbam.) DUNEDIN, April 15, Barristers from all parts of the Do* minion are attending the first Dominion legal conference held in six years. The inaugural address was given thif morning by Mr H. F. O'Leary, KXJ, (Wellington), president of the New Zealand Law Society, who presided. Mr O'Leary 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 brwg forward this provision. - It wis hoped that ttS recognition as a sound trade union principle would assure xts passage. (Laughter.) j„„4«,# Mr O'Leary claimed that during these years of difficulty the profession had not been lacking in public spirit nor sympathy for the distressed. A perusal of the average practitioners accounts would reveal a large amount of gratuitous or inadequately remunerated work-done. Delegated legislation The inevitability of delegated legislation by orders-in-council pu the form of rules and regulations was discussed by the Attorney-General (toe Hon. H. G. R. Mason) in an address. He intimated that a scheme vvould shortly be initiated under which rules and regulations would be made morp conveniently accessible to practitioners than by the publication In voluminous gazettes. He considered that I publication in theif©rot the statutes were issued would solve the problem.