Attempts to Restrict Practise in Provisional Court to Its Members Alone: Threats to President of the Court It has always been the time-honored tradition of the two Foreign Settlements at Shanghai to prevent any attenipt to monopolize any profession and trade within their juris diction. Yet according to Chinese newpapex reports, the Chinese Bar Association at Shanghai is making serious attempts to monopolize the legal profession in the Shanghai Provisional Court.
During the days when that Court wus under the old regime, it had a more or less an independent status, all lawyers. in the ease of foreign practitioners those who were. recognized by the consuls, and the Chinese, those who were licenced by the Ministry of Justice, were adjel "into that court, irrespective of the fact, whether or not they were members of any bar associa tion with the result there are now on the roll of the Shanghai Provisional Court 50 or 60 Chinese las~ yers practising in that court why fare not members of the Shanghai Chinese Bar Association, with a few exceptions, all of them holding Licences of the Ministry of Justice. Attempts were made when the court wast under Judge Loo but without result, Judge Loo paying no attention "to the application of the Shanghat Chinese Bar Association to debar all non-members.
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