Mention already has been made of the fact thut the Association, which exceeded its rights in a most flagrant smanner, during the tenure of Judge Loo Hsing-yuan as preident of the Provisions Court, demanded that Judge Loo should send nem an official copy of the list of legal practitioners at the Shanghai Provisional Court in order that they might see who were members of the Bar Association and who were not, and in order that non-members of the Association should be debarred from further practice, Included in the list of nonmembers, were a number of well-known Chinese gentlemen, who have won the esteem of both the, foreign and Chinese community, and several who had been admitted to practice by courtesy during the time of the former Mixed Court.
However, to revert to the Provisional Court request. Judge Loo declined to accede to the Association's request for an official list of practitioners, but we are told, said'that the Association could jond a man to the Court and make copy if they so wished. © The Association were extremely in-/dignant over this and accused Judge Loo of "shielding" men who they alleged to be disqualified as Inw-
Fors imilar letter was addressed to the French Mixed Coure and the reply was that certain lawyers there had been granted special permission to practise. The Court held, therefore, that they must refuse to grant permission to the Association to make inquiries into the matter. This request was then dropped for the time being.
Now, however, the Association, in the hope of getting these members barred from practice and of securing a monopoly, are repeating their agitation, They have, therefore, approached the new' Court president, Dr. Ho Shih-tsung, direct ly and threaten that, if he does not do as'they desire they will force his hand through the agency of the Kuomintany A Kuomintang Association At the present time the Associ tion is governed by an executive and a supervisory committee, the former consisting of ten members the latter five. All these men wre members of the Kuomintang and non-members of that political party are not allowed to be elected office, It is the hope of the Committees to transform the "As sociation into a Kuomintang agency. to the time of the National!s occupation, the Association had been fairly efficiently managed by Mr. Chang Yi-peng, former Vice-Minister of Justice, who revived it from dying organization into one in [which the members took an interest, There were a few personal differen-fees but these wore of a. minor, nature.
Then came bout an tempt on the part of the radicals, who now control the Association, to seize control, but these attempts were foiled. When the Nationalists took over Shanghai, these men had themselves elected to office. They did away with the presidency system of administration and introduced the commission form. Since they assumed control, there -has been continued discord and not a little trouble. As might be expected, they made loud professions of ""reforming" matters, but, naturally, all these so-called reforms were intended to benefit themselves.
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