GIANT OF LEGAL ARENA

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 6

GIANT OF LEGAL ARENA

FORTY-ONE years ago, a 22-yeai\3- --*■ old youth stood before a judge, recited a few solemn sentences, and ithdrew — a fully-qualified solicitor at ie Bar.' Seven years later that same young man figured m his first murder case — the Minnie Dean trial, one of the most famous cases m the. history of New Zealand crime.

Two score and ohe years of strenuous practice, ohe might imagine, would see the leaves of energy dropping away even from one such oak-hearted counsel as Hanlon, but he is still a giant m the arena.

From that day to this, the name of Alfred Charles Hanlon has emblazoned itself on the very pinnacle of the legal profession.