LEGAL FACILITIES
HELPING POOR PERSONS PARLIAMENT. PASSES BILL [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL BEFORTEB] WELLINGTON. Thursday The Legal Aid Bill, which is intended to provide facilities for poor persons to secure legal .advice, was passed in the House of Representatives to-night. The Attorney-General, the Hon. '»• G. R. Mason, said that although there was no question of partiality im t' e Courts, a wealthy person undertaking legal action had an advantage o\er a poorer person, in being able to affor better, legal facilities, and it was 110 desire of the legal . profession to minimise the disadvantage to the person of slender'means. ( The bill arose out of the initiates of the law societies, Mr. Mason continued. It was possible that they con do something without the bill, 11 unless there was some power of reg» * tion ic would be found that the willing horse would carry the loacL/lhe essen tial purpose of the bill was to regjj lari? : the position and enable the 0 1 gation to be shared. The bill was put through its remaining, stages and passed with very itt 0 discussion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23470, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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180LEGAL FACILITIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23470, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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