§ 3. Sir J. Wardlaw-Milneasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the draft law governing the legal profession in Egypt recently drawn up and which, amongst other things, confines that profession in the future to Egyptian lawyers resident in Egypt, has the support of the Egyptian Government; and what action His Majesty's Government are taking in the matter in view of the fact that there are a number of British lawyers practising in Egypt?
§ Mr. EdenThere is at present before the Egyptian Parliamentary Committee prior to submission to Parliament a draft law which contains a provision restricting entry to the Native Bar to lawyers possessing Egyptian nationality. The question of admission of Mixed Court barristers to practise before the Egyptian National Courts at the end of the transitional period has, however, been raised at the conference at Montreux and such admission is viewed with sympathy by His Majesty's Government.