§ SIR JOHN JENKINS (Carmarthen Boroughs)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether his attention has been called to a possible hardship that may arise in the case of a person articled to a solicitor who has in the present exceptional crisis volunteered for service in South Africa or joined a militia regiment; and whether, seeing that a solicitor has to declare that the clerk has not been engaged in any other employment during the time he has been articled, he will introduce a Bill to remove any disability for admission as solicitor of articled clerks by reason of employment in the auxiliary forces.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER,) Isle of WightThe circumstance to which the hon. Baronet refers is not peculiar to the legal pro- 696 fession. There are many other contracts of service and employment in which a similar state of circumstances may arise. It would not, in my opinion, be possible to legislate specially for articled clerks to solicitors.