COLD FRONT OF BENCH AND BAR.
~ ASSERTED AND DENIED. ;< : ", The fact that-judges of the/ Supremo Court are in daily touch with crime and oriminajs them lose .sympathy with' humanitarian ideas, according to Mr : E H. Taylor, M.P. "I hear a'member. of the legal profession saying- something - strong, , remarked Mr., Taylor after'.he .had given expression to.i-the above-senti- ; ment - yesterday,, "and,"' he added, "I - would, apply; the same terms to lawyers.'.' " Mr.. Hanari: (Invercargill) took up the - - cudgels on behalf of-the legal .profession, '- and "our sympathetic and tender-hearted judges."' Ho assorted that it was a gross slander to say. that they had . little sympathy with humanitarian'ideas..:-Lawyers had taken- a conspicuous and: successful ' part' in. advocating an dsecurihg humanitarian legislation. Among lawyers and judges, generally speaking,, there- were : ' ; men as honourable, humane, and: sympathetic as men in any . other occupatioa '• :i ' of life. -.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 921, 14 September 1910, Page 4
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140COLD FRONT OF BENCH AND BAR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 921, 14 September 1910, Page 4
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