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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1911,

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THE MANAGER,

Hongkong, March 1, 1911.

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1903

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Hongkong, October 13, 1910.

1930

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Hongkong, January 3, 1911.

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The Intolerable Tyranny of Lawyers.

To be broken on the wheel in the Middle Ages was the fate of heretics who batted up against the Inquisition, also called the BUSINESS HOUSES. Holy Ofice. The Inquisition was a tribunal

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

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Hongkong, May 2, 1911'

680

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FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

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tion.

examiner he or she will be shepherded into

admissions or trapped into confessioni admitting Infamy blended with idiocy and

| tainted with crime.

Intimations,

Only the other day I watched a leading "The Beer That's Brewed to Suit The Climate

conumol cross-examining a decent maz

whose excellent life spoke for itself on the

| testimony of every one who knew him. In the course of an hour's cross-examination the witness mind was reduced, to a state of jelly. Cadar the hypnotism and compulsion of a learned counsel the witness demonstrated oat of his own mouth that ha was a liar, a coward, and a scoundrel, who, If he had his dosorts, would be an outcast 18 a moral loper to the end of his life.

I spoke to the man during the lunchsou interval, and gathered that he was faint for want of food, that his mind was nearly a blank, that his one agonised desire was to escape from the red-hot pincers of the modern Inquisition.

A duel between an inexpert witn as and trained croad-examinér, in a conflict bo- tween a child and a prize-fighter.

In the case of men witnesses the injustice and cruelty of legal cross-examination create älmost as much evil as they prevent by the discovery of crime. In the case of women it is worse.

The licence of counsel in cross-examina- tion requires curling. It should never be forgotton that the rules of law nra mado by lawyers, with pecuniary, professional, and trade union reasons for making them public interest. Landing questions, that favourable to themselves, irrespective of

LAWS INTO THEMSELVES.

in the Roman Catholic Church for the is questions which suggest their on disco cry and punishmont of heresy, un-answer-may be put in cross-examination, belief, and other offences against ec-

but not in the examination in chief. clesiastics. Under the Inquisition the ac- cused was liable to be put to the torturo in: ardor to extort a confession of his guilt Breaking on the whool was one of the tos tures imposed by the Holy Oce. We have left those-days behind us, but the spirit of the "nquisitionsurvives among the successors of medianeal ecclesiastics. In the Middle Ages civil power was monopolized by sacerdotalism, not because priests were

The man in the street is a witness is only protected by the rule that he is not would expose him to a criminal charge. If bound to answer any question if the stewar

a sever, the result of his answer would be: to render him liable to a civil suit-an action for divorce for instance-he must either commit perjury or stand the racket. Questions may be put in cross-examination

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is, and to discredit him by blackening his character.

The judge may disallow questions which he considers to be vexatious or irrelerant to the issue. But the judge very seldom does anything of the kind. Eo belongs to the same trade union as the counsel, and very likely obtained promotion to a seat on the beach by proficiency in the art of son! torture. The judge has a follow-feeling for the barrister.

at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Das Vaux specially good man, but mainly because they had the practical-and effective moD- opoly of knowledge. When sacerdotalism cased to be omnipotent, lawyers, though laymen, aucceeded to the inheritance of civil power. For a long time Englishmen fought against the despotism of lawyers Like the rest of the world they have now succumbed. For the second time in cur Island Story we have a barrister who, after Dhe was Home Secretary in a previous a specimen is to a botanist, oya to an em×

Gaverament, is Prime Minister.

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The Repablies of the world and theist. British Colonies are practically saverned

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The British Cabinet is

Counsel who examino in chief interveno

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with cross-examination only in cases wie Marine Motors, Maguetos, Coils, Spares. lawyers established-not in the interest of the etc., may be addresseḍ to

it steps over the line which has been

Cabinet How did lawyers get this power? public or of witnesses, but of the close

Why is it the plain citizens have not yet | banded themselves together against the tytanny of John Bunyan'a "Mr Legality"? Every British citizen is subject to two grave risks at the hands of lawyers. Py a fiction of the law each of us is supposed to know the law of the land, although all Acts of Parliament are technical and un- intelligible to laymen.

profession that has exptured seventenths of the power of the world.

No more extraordinary example of the than the doubling of the part of a judicial prodigious power of lawyers could be shown

member of the Privy Council and of the Secretary of State for War. Everybody in the kingdom would see the ridiculoca absurdity of combining functions so in. congruous in the case of every other pro. fession.

The lawyers are a law unto themselves, Their encroachments are stealthy, effective, and unending. By the tyrannies of cross- examination no man and no’woman is aafe. The power, not of the law, but of lawyers, to uso law in their own intarosta has in.

TORTURE IN THE BOX. Second, every man and women in the kingdom is subject to be called on at any moment to submit to an unholy inquisition of torture by cross-examination. Not infrequently cross-examination in the 10.30a.m. to 11.00 p.m...Evary 15 minutes. twentieth century is more painful than erased, is increasing, and must be abated. 11.30a.m. to 12.45 p.m...Every 15 minutes. bei g broken on the wheel by the Holy 12.45 p.m. to 1.15pm...Every 10 minutes. -

1.10pm to 1.40 p.m...Every 15 minutos. Inquisition in the thirteenth century, 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 3.30p.m. to 5.00p.m...Every 15 minutes, 5.00p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT CARS.

Sespazo.

I was never under cross-examination, and therefore have no grievances to vent. Bet 1 kaow that if I were under cross-examina- tion I should cut un better figure than

-Arnold White in The Daily Express.

HIGHLAND CLAIMANTS.

Looking for the Heir to the

Urquhart Fortune.

There was great excitement in Dingwall in connection with an inquiry conducted by Mr Warden, solicitor,, Edinburgh, for the

8.43 p.m. and 9 p.m., 9.45 p.m. to 11.15 thousands of tortured souls who are stretched annually on the rack and broken p.m. every half hour.

by the Familiar of the law.. 8.00a.m. to 9.00 a.m...Every 15 minutes. The judge on the bench is often an heir to the fortune left by two brothers 9.00a.m. to 9.30a.m...Every 30 minutes experienced cross-examiner. He suminted from the Black Isie, Ross-shire, orer 70 named Urquhart, who, it is stated, emigra̸- 9.30a.m. to 10.30 a.m...Every 15 minutes. 10.30a.m. to 11.00 am...Every 10 minutes.isters a system of law with the whole years ago and prospered exceedingly. One 1140a.m. to

to i? Noon..

...Every 15 minutes. physical force of the country behind it. went to California, and settled down after 12.00 Noon to 1.00p.m. Every 10 minutes. When these powers are directed against making his pile on the goldfields. The other

1.00p.m. to 5.00p.m...Every 16 minutes. 5.00p.m. to 6.00p.m...Erary 10 minutes. the enemies of the State, their use is one 'sought (and found) his fortune in Aus 6.00p.m. to 7,00p.m...Every 15 minutes. Appropriate and the effect benign. Wien, tralia. Little is known of the brothers in the 7.00p.m. to 8.00p.m....Every All minutes. however, the operation of the law, as is North, <xcept that they spent their early

NIGHT CARS as on Wack Days.

SATUDATX

Extra Cars at 3.15, 11.30 and 11.40 p.m. SPECIAL CARS by strangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BULLSor, Des Varix Road Central.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

IS

EN TINO Burgeon Dentist

No. 14, D'AGUILAR SHEET.

often the case, through the tyrannical yoam with their parents, who had a smail | weapon of cross-examination, blasts cateers craft in the Black Isle.The Black Isle is a and sends inaceant people to the borders diamond-shaped peninsula in Row-shire, of insanity, it is time to call a halt in the lying between Cromarty Firth and Momy interests of the public.

Firth. One of the parishes in the Black

1agury.

I have read with deep interest the abia Islo in Unjuhart. criticism by "S. D. of the great scens in Over 100 claimants were azamized from the play produced at the Globe Theatre on all parts of the Highlands, but, so far sa Tuesday. The fact that the play turns on can be ascertained, the right heirs have not the question of cross-examination, and lebeen found, and the search is proving moro written by a King's Counsel in collaboration difficult than anticipated at the outset. with a member of Parliament, is a happy Au masing incident occurred when an old woman from the West Coast, who claimed The dry bones are stirring in the loss of to be the heir to the money, walked into the Court and at Westminster. The public is total and demanded the money from Mr beginning to kick against the relentless and promptly told that she would have bret Warden. Wordy warfare ensuod, when she unscrupulous use of the cross-examiner' to prove her claim. Over 300 claimants, art Witnesson, as a rule, ualous they are mainly from Ross-shire and Sutherland. professinal witnesses, which is only anshiro, wore examined. OHINA MAÏLS-other term for merchants in svifence, aro on a different plane from the legal artist in practice of the methods of the modern Inquisition.

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