| George Purcell Costigan - 1917 - 656 páginas
...justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend,... | |
| Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - 1917 - 970 páginas
...retainer in any case in which his services are requested. Lord Erskine in 1792 stated, "From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
| Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1919 - 216 páginas
...one charged with crime, for whom a lawyer of prominence should refuse to appear. " If," he said, " the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or the defense, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment;... | |
| 1920 - 1082 páginas
...from the profession." Erskine took the same view. In his speech in defence of Tom Paine he said : " If the advocate refuses to defend from what he may think of the charge or the defence he assumes the character of the Judge: nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment;... | |
| Canadian Bar Association - 1920 - 396 páginas
...integrity from the profession." Erskine took the same view. In his speech in defence of Tom Paine he said: "If the advocate refuses to defend from what he may think of the charge or the defence he assumes the character of the Judge: nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment;... | |
| Georgia Bar Association - 1925 - 446 páginas
...justice, the most valuable part of the English Constitution, can have no existence. "From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or icill not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice,... | |
| 1902 - 548 páginas
...justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
| Vermont Bar Association - 1895 - 462 páginas
...justice—the most valuable part of the English Constitution—can have no existence. From the moment an advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend,... | |
| 1901 - 1102 páginas
...would necessarily be associated with the cause of his client. " '•From the moment." said Erskine, '-that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...in the court where he daily sits to practise, from thai, moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend from what he... | |
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