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- Title
REORGANIZATION OF THE BAR AS A NECESSARY MEANS TO JUSTICE. A Synopsium. I. THE PUBLIC DEPENDEB.
- Authors
Gray, R. S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the importance of reorganization of the bar as a means to justice. John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, has once said that equal and exact justice has been the passionate demand of the human soul since man has wronged his fellow man; it has been the dream of the philosopher, the aim of the lawgiver, the endeavor of the judge, the ultimate test of every government and every civilization. Members of the legal profession sometimes glory in the fact that courts appoint counsel for poor persons charged with crime, and that the poverty stricken who will make oath to their pitiful state may even sue in "forma pauperis," ignoring the fact that this is something like the rich man taking glory unto himself because of a few pence cast into the treasury of the Lord. The more patent and pressing individual iniquities of the system of private retainer of counsel and trial lawyer that go without any chance for justice may be largely eliminated by such "public defender," and the work which will be so done should receive very close study. It is a great step in advance but fails to reach, although pointing the way to, the heart of the great trouble.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT agency reorganization; LAWYERS; WINSLOW, John B.; JUSTICE; LEGAL professions; PUBLIC defenders
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p650
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132643