The Archive · 1920

Strange Case of Mr

LEVINSON — A Supreme Court Order — STORY OF MR. LEVINSON'S

"BRITISH" NATIONALITY, The case of William Strafford Levinson, a Russian subject who posed in Shanghai as a British subject and practised as a member of the British Bar, was before his Honour Judge Skinner Turner in

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Supreme Court on Wednes-the Crown Advocate. (Mr. H. P. Wilkinson) presented a motion that his admission to practice in that Court be revoked, for good cause, and that the roll of legal practitioners in. the Court be amended. To this formal application Mr. Wilkinson added that an affidavit filed in its support had been before his Lordship in Chambers, Bar Committe Not Concernep.

Mr. R. N. Macleod said that, as Secretary of the Bar Committee, he had been served with notice of this motion, which was the reason of his appearance there. Having received such notice, he would of course naturally appear, apart, from any question of courtesy to the Crown Advocate, the Bar being naturally anxious to help in any matter where he was in any sort of difficulty. But he would like to make it clear that the Bar Committee as such and himself as Seeretary had strictly speaking no interest or real standing in the matter. He thought it important to say thie ted without permission.

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