 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1925 - 446 pages
...which impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English Constitution, can have no existence. "From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or icill not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice,... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 548 pages
...which impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
 | Vermont Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 462 pages
...justice—the most valuable part of the English Constitution—can have no existence. From the moment an advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend,... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 1102 pages
...would necessarily be associated with the cause of his client. " '•From the moment." said Erskine, '-that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...in the court where he daily sits to practise, from thai, moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend from what he... | |
 | Geoff Monahan - Law - 2001 - 152 pages
...statement of Erskine to justify his unpopular defence of the US and French revolutionary Tom Paine: ... from the moment that any advocate can be permitted...that moment the liberties of England are at an end. The practical reality of the cab rank rule is debatable. In the case of Arthur JS Hall and Co (A Firm)... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...undermined the very principle of a free trial and the presumption of innocence until proved guilty. "From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end" (Speeches, 1:474-75). Erskine chose... | |
 | Geoffrey C. Hazard, Angelo Dondi - Law - 2004 - 380 pages
...in local need of legal assistance was proclaimed by Thomas Erskine in the late eighteenth century: "From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he ... will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in ... court . . . from that moment the liberties... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he sits daily to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1907 - 252 pages
...which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend,... | |
 | Charles Ellewyn George - Banking law - 1921 - 380 pages
...criticised for undertaking the defense of a criminal, said: "From the moment that any advocate says that be will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he dally sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end." The right of the... | |
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From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. 
