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Subject_1 Administration of Justice Subject_2 Law-Agent Subject_3 Misconduct Subject_4 Deletion from Roll — Readmission. Facts: Circumstances in which the Court re-admitted a law-agent whose name had been removed from the roll on account of an act of embezzlement committed fifteen years previously, for which he had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment, but who had satisfied the Court as to the probity of his conduct since his liberation.
On the other hand, I do not wish to encourage the idea that the mere lapse of time gives a right to claim re-admission. But I think that the circumstances of this petition are so favourable as to justify us in granting the prayer.
Lord Adam —I am of the same opinion. The petitioner was convicted in 1879 of the embezzlement of funds which had been entrusted to him in his capacity of a law-agent, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. What followed was that his name was, on his own application, removed from the list of law-agents. That, in my opinion, constitutes no difference from his being struck off the roll, which would have been done but for his application.
Counsel for the Petitioner— D. Dundas— W. Thomson . Agents— W. & J. Burness , W.S.
Counsel for the Society of Law-Agents— Macfarlane . Agents — Carment, Wedder—burn, & Watson , W.S.
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