WAR CRIMINALS
ENGLISH STAND ON DEFENCE Rec. noon. LONDON, October 28. The general Bar Council has passed a resolution that it is undesirable that a member of the English Bar should appear for the defence of the war criminals accused before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Another resolution declared that it is not part of the duty of an English barrister to appear in any foreign Court before which he possessed no exclusive right of audience, although he is entitled to appear. The council held that it was the duty of a • barrister, if properly instructed, to appear in any Court in which he is accustomed to practise. This duty, arising from the exclusive right of audience accorded to the English Bar in England, included the acceptance of a brief for a defendant charged with treason.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7
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137WAR CRIMINALS Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7
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