The Law Society’s Gazette, April 1939

Poor Persons ProcedureThe Council have considered the following resolution passed by the Associated Law Societies of Wales: "That the Associated Law Societies of Wales and their Poor Persons Committees decline to deal with any new poor persons cases after the 30th June next year until the following reforms are granted: a reasonable fee paid to the conducting solicitor; the Council have informed the Associated Law Societies of Wales that the Council deprecate in the strongest possible terms the threat to decline to deal with any new poor persons cases."

The Law Society’s Gazette, April 1949

The Legal Aid and Advice Bill Under Part II of the First Schedule to the Bill, legal aid is not to be available in respect of certain classes of proceedings, the most important of which are, probably, proceedings wholly or partly in respect of defamation or breach of promise of marriage. One amendment that was fully debated suggested that legal aid should be available for defendants in the excepted proceedings, while aid for plaintiffs should still be excluded: it was urged that this would protect those exposed to the risk of blackmailing actions.

The Attorney General pointed out that great public misgiving would be caused if, under the Bill, it were possible to subsidize ‘a blackguard defendant’ but not to give legal aid to the plaintiff. The amendment was negatived. Notes of the monthThe compositor who set the type for one of our Classified Advertisements last month accidentally used a ‘C’ where a ‘B’ was needed. In the result a Costsman-Accountant who sought fresh work and who had included the words ‘Books any system’ was made to advance the claim ‘Cooks any system’.