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circumstances obtaining here, there is no present intention of
proposing any alteration in the Legal Practitioners Ordinance
1871 which regulates all matters concerning the two professions.
Mr. J. H. Kemp who has been appointed
4.
Crown Solicitor is a Barrister not a Solicitor; it was, there-
-fore, necessary to pass an Ordinance over-riding the pro-
-visions of section 21 which would have prevented him from
being enrolled as a Solicitor and therefore from practising as
such in Government behalf.
5.
The first draft bill drawn by the
Attorney-General for this purpose authorized the Governor to
appoint as Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crom Solicitor any
persons qualified under the Ordinance cited to be enrolled as
a Barrister or Solicitor and then directed that the Court
should enrol to practise as Solicitor and Proctor any person so
appointed. A proviso was added limiting the rights of the Crown
Solicitor and his Assistant so enrolled to practising in cases
in which Government was concerned. The Colonial Secretary took
exception to the limitation of the power of the Governor to the
appointment of such persons only who might already be Barristers
or Solicitors and the draft was amended to give power to
appoint any person as Assistant Crown Solicitor and any
'qualified' person as Crown Solicitor.
6.