MR. DARBY GRIFFITHSsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Attorney General, Whether he will exert his professional influence during the Recess, to obtain an alteration of the Professional Custom, which appears to have grown up at the Parliamentary Bar, that Junior Counsel are precluded from receiving Refresher and Consultation Fees of a less amount than those given to Senior Counsel, however much the Junior Counsel might himself desire it; which restriction Mr. Attorney General, in his evidence before the Committee on Private Bill Legislation, has himself considered to be not in accordance with the well-established professional etiquette of the Bar in general?
THE SOLICITOR GENERALsaid, in the absence of his hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General, he had to state that the Attorney General, did not believe he had sufficient influence with the Members of a branch of the profession to which he did not himself belong to induce them to alter their professional customs. And he (the Solicitor General) might further observe that during the Recess the members of the Bar would be dispersed over all parts of Europe.