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BARRISTERS TAKING BRIEFS, TO WHICH THEY CANNOT ATTEND. WE observed, with much satisfaction, the rebuke given by Chief Justice Campbell and Baron Parke. in the Central Criminal Court, recently, to counsel taking briefs to a greater extent than they could properly attend to. These remarks were called forth by two well-known counsel having succes- sively accepted briefs to defend a certain prisoner, and having severally returned them at a short in- terval before the sitting of the Court, so that at •u~ hial had to be postponed until the next -ounsel referred to subsequently 1n, that they had sent the briefs ler than had been represented • Chief Justice, nevertheless, to repeat his condemnation of hose whose attention has been jjects well know that it is too at grievous injure-to parties often H. It is essentially unjust; and bar- risters who act in such a way are highly culpable. But there is another form of the evil, to which we may advert; that of handing over a brief to some other counsel, who not unfiequently appears, un- der such circumstances, aplogizing to the Court for being unprepared. By going on without having given a due attention to the case, it may be lost; while, on the other hand, a postponement may be from various causes an equally serious evil. This is more especially the case with assize trials; at the Central Criminal Court the injury is not so great, from the frequency of the sittings. For a barrister to proceed with a case, when avowedly unprepared, from the number of his engagements, is similarly reprehensible. Doubtless it is disagreeable to re- fuse a brief; but to take it, and not to give proper attention to it, or to accept, and then return it, after considerable delay, is a dishonest sacrifice of the interest of the client to that of the advocate, and a very ungrateful return to the public for the extent of patronage which is thus actually made the excuse for doing injustice to clients. If no higher motive urge, the changes which are taking place in the profession should warn even the most popular counsel that, notwithstanding they may think their own position unassailable, it is possible that they may injure their branch of the profession, to the benefit of the clever solicitors who are de- manding an equality with (hem. The public, how- ever, have, to a great extent, a remedy in their own hands, if they will insist upon exercising it. Of what use is it to retain the most eminent counsel, even in important cases, if they are too busy to do justice to them? As to ordinary actions, it would be much wiser to give to briefs men who have yet a reputation and a fortune to make but notwith- standing, who may be quite able to do justice to them.

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