Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland, Petitioners. v. Purves, Petitioner

Held That The Written Application Should Be Made, Not To The Court But To Those Responsible For The Keeping Of The Rolls, Viz., Either To The Lord President Or To The Actual Keepers Of The Rolls.

An Application To The Lord President By A Law-agent For An Order To Direct The Keepers Of The Rolls In The Court Of Session And The Sheriff Court Of The Lothians To Strike His Name Off Their Respective Rolls, Granted, And Held Unnecessary To Proceed With A Simultaneous Application To The Court At The Instance Of The Incorporated Society Of Law-agents For An Order To Strike The Name Of The Same Agent Off These Rolls.

This was an application at the instance of the Incorporated Society of Law-Agents in Scotland for an order to the keeper of the roll of law-agents practising in the Court of Session, and to the keepers at Edinburgh and Haddington of the rolls of law-agents practising in the Sheriff Court of the Lothians and Peebles, to strike the name of John Fraser Purves, law-agent, Edinburgh, off their respective rolls.

The petition proceeded on the narrative that the said John Fraser Purves having pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery, was on 20th July 1894 convicted and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment; that upon obtaining his liberty he had resumed practice as a law-agent; and that though at Page: 322 ↓

The said John Fraser Purves also presented a note to the Lord President, citing section 14 of the Law-Agents Act 1873, quoted below, and craving his Lordship to direct the keepers of the registers of the law-agents practising in the Sheriff Court of Midlothian and Haddington and in the Court of Session to strike off the petitioner's name from the said registers.