The Law Society’s Gazette, March 1939

National Service: The Council recognises that, in the event of war, many solicitors would find themselves faced with the problem of what to do about their practices while engaged on service. The Council are actively engaged in finding a solution to this problem. The Council have given consideration to the question of the care of clients' documents, wills, papers etc., and are of the opinion that the danger of war does not involve a solicitor in a legal liability greater than that existing in the ordinary way of taking proper care of such documents and papers.

The Law Society's Gazette, March 1959

Telephone tapping: During the past year, the Council have considered the question of the interception of telephone conversations on the orders of the Home Secretary, arising out of the decision of a former Home Secretary to pass to the General Council of the Bar a transcript of intercepted conversations which included one between a barrister and a solicitor on the telephone line of a third party about a pending case. Correspondence ensued between the Council and the Home Office, in the course of which the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office had said that the Government had undertaken that there should be no disclosure of information obtained as a result of the authorities’ interception of communications, to private individuals or private bodies or domestic tribunals of any kind whatsoever.