The Archive · 1928

Application for Prohibition

Now, fiowever, non-members of this Association, many of whom describe themselves as graduates of the Hamilton College of Law, a correspondence college in Chicago, U.S.A,, have formed an organization, which they call the Bar Association of the International Settlement and which they claim is an association for lawyers who practise in the ternational Settlement, "As the Shanghai Provisional

result of the usual treaties, Court tas oom otabised Chinese people should do ' their utmost to make it an entirely Chi nese Court or abolish it altogether. We should not acknowledge that the "International Settlement within the jurisdiction of a special court. Tf another bar association is, formed in the International Settle-

Lament, it will affect very gouty the rendition of the International Settlement and. improvements to the Shanghai Provisional Court, "Non-members understand this, but, as their qualifications are uns factory and us some have pure their diplomas with money, are netingg in an illegal way yy starting a Bar Association of the International Settlement, onder to keep themselves'

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