CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 211

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It has been ascertained from the Colonial

Secretary that the Crown Solicitor will be allowed to use the promises set apart for him in the New Law Courts for conducting the private practice of his firm as has been allowed in the

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This will entail the signboard of the firm being exhibited on exterior of the new buildings, and the use of the stairs, lifts and passages by the private clients of the firm. This has been tolerated in the past, but it is suggested that it should not be allowed to continue for these reasons:-

The use of the building should be reserved

1.

for the officials, the public and those practitioners who have

business to transact there.

2.

3.

The exhibition of the firms' signboards on the public building is not dignified and conveys # wrong in- -pression, viz.:- that the public duties of the Crown Solicitor and the private practice of his firm are one and the same.

The firm to which the Crown Solicitor

belongs has long been allowed the right of private practice and must unavoidably obtain, from the fact of his official position, an advantage over the rest of the profession. This ought not to

be increased by permitting his firm to occupy the same premises

as the Crown Solicitor.

4.

It is to be hoped that the Government will

at e some future date see their way to employ the Crown

Solicitor exclusively but until the time comes when this is

done, every care should be taken not to increase the advantage

above referred to.

5.

In the past, as far as can be ascertained,

no protest has been made by the profession in respect of the

sxisting state of affairs but the opening of the New Law Courts

will accentuate the unfair advantage already enjoyed by the firm

as the Government will be providing the firm with more accormic❤

dation

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