Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER.... Littell's Living Age - Page 3051850Full view - About this book
| 1845 - 808 pages
...we can account for the following splendid exaggeration of Lord Brougham's upon this subject : — " An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring... | |
| 1858 - 974 pages
...Brougham in his famous defence of Queen Caroline, that " mn advocate, by the sacred duty he owes bi* client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world — hi? client and none others," — that " to save his client by all expedient means; to protect that... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 698 pages
...lordships, — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm — the suffering — the torment — the destruction — which... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 704 pages
...client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHEK. To save that client by all expedient means, — to...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm — the suffering — the torment — the destruction — which... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 702 pages
...your lordships,—which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind,—that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHEB. To save that client by all expedient means,— to protect that client at all hazards and costs... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 514 pages
...need\ ITALIAN SOCIETY. 143 ful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty of his connection with his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world—that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 382 pages
...many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty of his connexion with bis client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring... | |
| The Westminster Review January-April 1841 - 1841 - 582 pages
...are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty of his connexion with his client, knows in the discharge of that office...person in the world— that client, and none other." His Lordship might have been asked for a definition of the sacred duty, and the authorities wherein... | |
| Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 558 pages
...its authoritative protection to cast off all restraints against all II H 2 * parties. To serve the client by ' all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others,' or, according to the noble and learned lord who vindicates the •practice as a duty, to disregard... | |
| Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 pages
...in his defence of Queen Caroline, before the House of Lords, in which we find the following : — " An Advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person the world could produce. § Of that portrait there certainly can be but one opinion among honest men.... | |
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