The Recent Application Against a West Bromwich Solicitor: In the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, yesterday, the case of Mr. Henry Jackson, solicitor, West Bromwich, came before Mr. Baron Haddleston and Mr. Justice Manisty, sitting as a Divisional Court. This was a motion on the part of Mr. Jackson to set aside a recent order of the court striking him off the rolls for not answering certain matters contained in an affidavit. The order was made in the absence of Mr. Jackson … (discussion of his failure to appear – through misunderstanding) … Mr. McIntyre said the charge Mr. Jackson was called upon to answer was contained in a joint affidavit of Bernard Gilpin and Richard A. Pinsent. That affidavit stated that in 1878 Mr. Jackson acted for Gilpin as his solicitor in two matters … Mr. Baron Huddleston, in giving judgment said he had no hesitation in stating that the application against Mr. Jackson ought never to have been made. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948