GINGER FOR JUNIORS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 20

GINGER FOR JUNIORS

JUSTICE HOEBIDGE ON LEGAL LIGHTS. Mr.- Justice Horridge has been denouncing the modern "junior" as "so lazy that^he very seldom makes notes of the evidence or the judgment in the Court below." Have we lost, then, that indef itigable race whose prototype was the learned junior instructed ;by Ber.ell to keep a case going while his busy leader was elsewhere? asks a correspond' ->t of the "Manchester Guardian." Bethell forgot this particular case till he passed the Court a fortnight

later and heard "my incomparable junior" still in spate. 1 Perhaps modern barristers need the scarifying personality of a Charles Bussell among them, for laziness was not a vice which he could tolerate among his fellow-juniors. Bussel], indeed, went farther and even spurred his unfortunate leaders to activity, sometimes against their wills. "Ask the witness s; and so," ho would whisper, ""Why don't you ask him so and so?" But in any case he was all for action. In the robing-room at Liverpool he would demand of a group round the fire, </Why are you loafing here? Why don't you do something?" And t6 a plea of having nothing to do —"Why don't you go to the races? Do something; don't mope!". Yet even Eussell might not have been altogether on Mr. Justice Horridge's side. Once a junior, sitting beside him, was taking a note and said so in reply to a brusque question. "Whatthe devil do you mean by saying you are taking a note?" burst out Eussell. "Why don't you watch the case?" So it is hard to please everyone. -;•'