Birmingham Law Society and the Milward Case: Mr. R. A. Pinsent, president of the Birmingham Law Society, speaking at the annual meeting on Wednesday, viewed the Milward case from many aspects. Referring to the mixing of clients’ money, he said for a long time the law was that any agent must rigidly comply with the written directions as to the application of money. That was extended in directions which were not written, but he would like members of the profession to step further, and, without directions, to take care that money which was entrusted to them was kept rigidly separate. He did not suggest that an honest man would become dishonest if he mixed his own money with his clients’, nor that the dishonest man would be honest if kept the accounts separate, but it was the first step that counted, and he was sure if all of them from the beginning made it a rule to keep their clients’ money separate from own, a great source of temptation would be entirely avoided.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948