Read the full judgment text of HCA 000445/1973 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 July 1973.
1. At the hearing of an inter parte summons in this action a lady appeared before me in chambers seeking to represent a firm of solicitors on behalf of one of the parties. Solicitors for the other parties immediately raised objection to her presence not on personal grounds but on the ground that she was not qualified within ss. 4 and 7 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, She is, however, I understand, qualified as a solicitor in Australia. In order to dispose of the business then before me it