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- Title
II. AN OFFICIAL TRIAL BAR.
- Authors
Gray, R. S.
- Abstract
The article argues that all trials in court should be conducted by members of a trial bar, holding public office under civil service system and prohibited from accepting any private employment while holding such office. Given a profession that is naturally conservative, even though specially charged with the protection of life, liberty and property, and which by surrounding circumstances and the general forces of society has become divided into two groups, one small in numbers but rich in all the gifts of brain and powerful largely through cohesion and exploitation, and the other overwhelmingly large in numbers but weak through dependence even to the point of practical starvation as the price of independence. No matter what the glorious future of governmental agency may be, its judicial function so far has been merely a halting and partial substitute for war, and wherever it tends to increase and embitter strife it is probably fundamentally wrong in spirit or method rather than merely lacking in efficiency.
- Subjects
TRIALS (Law); LAWYERS; GOVERNMENT agencies; CIVIL service; LAW enforcement; LEGAL procedure; LEGAL professions
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p654
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132644