...discussion reference is made to the fact that Lord Macaulay in his glittering style inquires, ' ' Can it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head...band round his neck, do for a guinea what, without those appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire ? ' ' To this rhetorical...

...to undertake it, the pseudo-moralist asks? And Lord Macaulay in his glittering style inquires, "Can it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head...band round his neck, do for a guinea what, without those appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire!" To this rhetorical question...

...with the subject of advocacy Macaulay says ; "We will not at present enquire whether the doctrine held by English lawyers be or be not agreeable to reason...a band round his neck do for a guinea what without those appendages he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire : whether it be right that...

...with, for example, the chivalrous treatment by Jesus of the " woman taken in adultery." Lawyers. "Can it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head ... do for money . . . what, without that appendage, he would think it wicked and infamous to do for...

...fair game. You will remember the saying of Macaulay on this matter. "We will not at present inquire whether it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head, and a band around his neck, do for a guinea what, without appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to...

...strictures pronounced by Lord Macaulay: . "We will not at present inquire whether the doctrine held by the English lawyers be or be not agreeable to reason and...a band round his neck do for a guinea what without those appendages he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire : whether it be right that...

...the dominant picture yields a terribly disquieting conclusion — in Macaulay's words, that a lawyer "with a wig on his head, and a band round his neck [will] do for a guinea what, without those appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to do...

...Macaulay (1800-59, legal adviser to the Supreme Council of India 1834-38), as observing that an advocate "with a wig on his head and a band round his neck will do for a guinea what he would otherwise think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire " . The...

...Ethics' (1980) 55 New York University Law Review 63 at 73. Macaulay's words, it implies that an advocate 'with a wig on his head and a band round his neck will do for a guinea what he would otherwise think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire'.17 To...

...hattissers' ie those who onfy wtise opinions. 6 The Lawyer's Aowral Role and Lawyer Imowraliry lIs itl tight that a man should, with a wig on his head and a hand atound his neck, du for a guinea what, without thuse appendages, he would think it wicked and...