The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBBI 17.

WE took occasion the other day to draw attention
to a very flagrant case of legal malpractice, in which
the relative of a prisoner having raised a few guineas
to secure the services of attorney and counsel for his
defence, the money was duly paid, the prisoner left
undefended,and the fee only returned in oonsequenoe
of the indignant interposition of the court. In the
belief that such heartless and cruel acts of extortion
were only too common, we ventured particularly to
commend the case to the investigation of those learned
bodies—the Benchers of our lons of Court and the
managers of the Law Institution—who are more
especially charged with maintaining the discipline of
the legal profesaion. Oar impression of Wednesday
last contained the report of another cue apparently
of a very similar kind—a cue which we donee hesi-
tate to say imperatively calls for further inquiry at
the hands of the proper authorities.
In May last a lad was tried at the Bang Sessions
for stealing a watch, and a previous conviction
having been proved against him, he was sentenced to
penal servitude for a term of six years. Last Tuesday
the mother of the lad appeared before Mr. Eutorr
to make the following complaint against an attorney
of the name of NEALE. This person, she stated,
had, some time after her eon's conviction, undertaken
to prepare a memorial to the SECRETARY of STATE
in his behalf, which, according to Neout's represen-
tation, would have the affect of getting the
scarlet off at the end of six, or, at the most, of
twelve months' imprisonment. For the preparation
of this sensor:at Naas asked sad the woman paid
24 Her complaint was that since taking the mosey
he bid done nothing in the matter ; aad her request
to the magistrate was that ander these circumstance,
he might be ordered to retain it. Ia answer to this
complaint, Na m protested that he bad taken steps
to procure the depositions on which the lad was com-
mitted with avow to the preparatioa of the memorial;
that he had hitherto failed in doing so, bat that when
he had succeeded in getting the waggery labium-
dos, he should perform his promise. As the envie-
ties took plus is May, and this complaint is made
in the middle of October, it does not appear that the
payment of the 24 had inspired Mr. NZALI with any
remarkable degree of activity. At all events, the
complainant—having been probably advised that she
has, to say the least of it, made an excessively bad
bargain—declines Mr. Niata's offer to pruned.
But here the nine in court blooms so edifying that
we shall give verbatim the trilogy that ensues between
the magistrate, the attorney, and the convict's mother.
Applicant-1 dos'; wish yon to de 'syllabi la the matter.
Tee have dew aetkag, sad, therefwe, I went my two
pumas ugh.

XL Neale—Than you teal bars it. Do you Walt lon
to bays all my trouble for uolltlag ? I wet do Mishima is
ELM way.
Mr. Elliott—You ammo! sharp for that white you have
mot dome. It is p.,f.m4 4011111111411111 as monism Is &auk
Ohms people an plussabred by swab preesedrisge as ow seared,
nor Asord of. I marmot ermseire shy this peer woman
should hare b.s stoned two gonads for merely drawing
up a esemerial sr petition to Um Secretary of State.
Mr. Esale—Yom was►ip is mot aware et We ttotbk.
Mr. Elliott—What trouble?

Kr. Neale—Well, there h gong mod to the loran who
tried the cue, for notesee, to got their sumo to tie
nenorial.

Mr. Elliott--I skeekt ►e Slat to know ea w►at moods
yea *told ripest a etassatetka of puelehmeat ; for, se far
es I molted, w►ea the owe wee ►ehre me, the e►aree
"Wan the planter was perhatly deer; sag brides that,
thsee woo a termer esavietisa.

Mr. Neele—Well. dr, I oodetebeil there were stress
panda fora nitwits of peeletweeet ; and eat, tee lateswee,
wee that the Miser gave hie evilest, es If the planter had
bees eesteeeed to tresepertatiee.

The App&oat—Tito ;on did se auelt thlsi ; b oaly
maid be wee ouwaarily soovietod sad get throe leattho; sad
this shows that you did set gin yourself say trouble about
lila.

Mr. Elliott—l do aot no that them was the Wildest vas
atoatorialls•as the theoretuy M tats, sad you late sot
•boas say resod' for defog to: sad I think, dist Lidos
woe, frogs poor pop& and swot 411111111111616111011/ to not
only wag inpopir, Not syssiods to posi dissiossoty. I
Mask yea shook tours the 2L

"Scandalous plunder" and "positive dishonesty"
—such are the terms in which the magistrate, having
all the facts of the case before him, qualifies thaw
proceedings. Is any milder baggage adequate to
convey a correct notion of the c4feami 1' For under-
takieg the preparation of a memorial, which the
!slightest attention to the facts must have shown him
to be utterly hopeless, this lawyer takes a prepay.
meat to which professionally he had no kind o claim.
When asked to refund, on the ground that nothing
has been done for the money, he refuses, on the plea
that he jotted, to do something, when he must know
that all that can be done is worse than idle. The
magistrate winds up by a recommendation that the
21. should be refunded. MULE promisee that if
the complainant will follow him to hie °face, he
will restore part. The poor woman doss so,
but, as the report informs us, speedily returns to the
court without her mossy ; sad the eeaelasio• of the
whole is that she is advised by the magistrate to
give Nails formal notice not to proceed further in
the matter, sad to summons him is the meaty wart
for the 21. This is no doubt jedieioas advice, and
will probably have the effect of compelling a resto-
ration of the paltry plunder. Bat the question h—
and it is a question in which the respectability of the
legal professioe, and the character for efileisney of
the Law lastitatbo, are alike very deeply concerted
—whether the matter sea be allowed to rest hero ?
We do sot want to prejudge the esse—we are eon.
tent to pat it only as mie of grave mph:be—imp,.
ratively demanding fall and searching isquiry. But
lower then this it is impossible to pat it, and if on
investiption it turns out to be as bad se it looks, it
is equally impossible to evade the emission that
this Nast.e ought to looter to be permitted to con.
time on the rolls as a pesetkieg attorney.

Mr. Ibwisad Hull, tho tharetary to tha Go al
Poot-allee, her steered ea invitation by the lllsm of
greater oe to the briquet by wonbip odd Oh algid
to for Crimean et the aurora Mali Pear Gloomy,
whose *are Meanie' titstitsOrris. will tear Seed.
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