Mr. R. A Pinsent and Solicitors’ Accounts: It was reported at the meeting of the Birmingham Law Society yesterday that a committee had been appointed to investigate the question of solicitors’ accounts, and Mr. R. A. Pinsent, who is to represent the society on the committee, had something to say on the subject at yesterday’s meeting. There were some things, he said, which were peculiar to their profession. In the first place its members were exposed to an unusual amount of temptation. Then the injury as a result of malpractice did not fall on those who were able to bear it, but the widow and orphan; and if confidence in the profession were not repaired it injured them all, good and bad alike. At the meeting of the committee, at which he was present, he was rather struck to find there was considerable divergence of opinion. A large number of practitioners — principally the older ones who were rightly conscious of their rectitude, resented anything like control or interference. He thought that no trouble was too great if they could save that loss and misery which they knew had been caused in that and other towns through improprieties of which solicitors had been guilty. He hoped that some scheme would be devised which, in the early stages, anything like falling away from firm strict professional propriety might be prevented.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948