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Sir WILLIAM ROBSON : The difficulty would be to settle which authorities are to be satisfied. Mr. DEAKIN : You are the authorities to be satisfied as to your Bar. Sir WILLIAM ROBSON : If the Conference pass a resolution, that is a matter which no doubt would have great weight; but, after all, the decision as to what qualifications are necessary is at present left to the Inns of Court for the English Bar and the Incorporated Law Society for solicitors. The English Bar has expressed its willingness in the document which is before me to consider favourahly any proposal of which it would, of course, be itself the judge as to what the qualifications should be here and in the Colonies, and it would have itself to be the judge as to what conditions it should impose here. These are matters really for the English Bar, and 1 think an assurance of that kind from the Inns of Court should really be sufficient, but it would look very much like a quasi-legislative step affecting the Inns of Court if they were told by this Conference that, according to a decision to which great weight should be attached, provision should be made throughout the Empire for reciprocal admission of barristers to practice. They would say : " What about our authority ? It is we who decide." Mr. DEAKIN : I thought Sir Joseph had put that aside. Sir WILLIAM ROBSON : I should like to see Sir Joseph's amended resolution in some form in which it can be carefully considered, because 1 am sure his addendum Mr. DEAKIN : As I understand it is not an addendum; he takes the second paragraph of the report from the Sub-Treasurer to the four Inns of Court. Sir WILLIAM ROBSON : Not in substitution for his resolution. Sir JOSEPH WARD : I have no objection to substitute that formally. If I take the recommendation of the four''lnns of Court I do not know that I can have any better authority. Sir WILLIAM ROBSON : I should like to see the exact form of the resolution. What the report says is that it should be favourably considered and I do not think there would be any objection to that in substitution for the original proposal. Mr. DEAKIN : Am I not right, Sir Joseph, that you move sub-section 2 of this report possibly omitting the word "that"—"Provided it is satis- " factorily established " right down to the last word. Sir JOSEPH WARD : I move that, Mr. DEAKIN : There is no objection to that. Sir JOSEPH WARD : " Provided it is satisfactorily established that the qualifications for admission as a barrister in any colony are equivalent to those in this country any proposal for facilitating the call to the English Bar of barristers in any colony or dependency upon terms analogous to those upon which English solicitors may for the time being be entitled to be called to the Bar should be favourably considered."
Thirteentli Day. 8 May 1907.
Reciprocity as to Barristers.
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