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THE

JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE

1890

VOL. XXXIV.

EDINBURGH

T. & T. CLARK, LAW BOOKSELLERS, CEORGE STREET

GLASGOW:

GLASGOW: THOMAS MURRAY AND SON; AND J. SMITH AND SON

ABERDEEN: WYLLIE AND SON

LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS

MDCCCXC

MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH

TIBUVKA

92413

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY

LAW DEPARTMENT.

THE JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE

AND

SCOTTISH LAW MAGAZINE.

Editorial.

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Lord Herschell in Glasgow. The Juridical Society of Glasgow are extremely fortunate in their praiseworthy. endeavours to secure an annual opening address from some legal celebrity. This year they had Ex-Lord Chancellor Herschell amongst them. Lord Herschell is one of the most able, successful, and widely esteemed lawyers of his time. He shares with Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge the distinction of being the only judges in Great Britain who are reported to sympathize with Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy; and he is a stumbling-block to those truculent Tories who maintain that every supporter of that policy is either uneducated, dishonest, or insane. Lord Herschell chose as the subject of his Glasgow address, "The Rights and Duties of an Advocate;" and if his discourse contained nothing new or specially striking, it embodied an interesting and weighty exposition of the ethics of legal practice. We have not read a more clear and ample refutation of the objection to a lawyer pleading a case which he did not himself believe in; and that is a subject which, in view of inveterate popular prejudice, it is in the interests of the profession to have handled by a lawyer of such character and distinguished attainments as Lord Herschell. If the public need to be set right on this matter, the profession are none the worse of the cautions offered them by the lecturer, as "Never bully a witness; " "Always give a witness fair play;" "Don't, if it can be avoided, try to wound and cast

VOL. XXXIV. NO. CCCXCVII.-JANUARY 1890.

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