limitation, therefore, he would be
reduced to such a state
of professional inaction that he must necessarily deteriorate; his actual practice in Court would be so small that he would soon become less efficient than the private practitioners; and that the Fusimene government would be worse done than that
of private individuals.
6. Again, it is desirable in order to keep up regularity in the practice of the Court that the Attorney General should be practically, as he is nominally, the head of the Bar in the Colony by taking part in the general business of the Courts; and if he were never to appear except on behalf of the Crown, the confidence of the People in the Administration of Justice would be weakened, as he would be regarded merely as a member of the Government rather than as a practitioner of the Law.
7. Looking also to the very limited Bar which now exists in the Colony, it would be disadvantageous to the mercantile and general Community to deprive them of the opportunity of obtaining the advice and assistance of the Attorney General.
8. But the strongest argument...