Milward Failure: Mr. R. A. Pinsent, president of the Birmingham Law Society, occupied the chair at the annual meeting Wednesday, in the Library, Bennett’s Hill, and moved the adoption of the report. Reviewing various events of the year, he pointed to “one subject,” which he should be glad to pass over in silence. He referred to “a prominent member of the profession, and a member of the committee, who had brought disgrace upon himself and discredit upon his profession, and disaster upon a great number of innocent people.” The penalty of his misdeeds had been exacted, and the speaker was anxious in what he said not cause unnecessary pain those who must feel more than they did any reference to the subject – But he felt it would not be right at the first general meeting of the profession after the public disclosures to pass it by without expressing the sense of humiliation they all felt – He, however, claimed that in spite of the shock of the recent disclosures, the profession still retained its most trusted position and enjoyed the confidence of its clients.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948