HC Deb 29 March 1900 vol 81 cc695-6
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 Wight

The circumstance to which the hon. Baronet refers is not peculiar to the legal pro- 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.