Report of the committee on the employment of unqualified assistants by registered practitioners.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1883
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    of the Profession, would frustrate that intention, by assisting unqualified persons to pass with the Public as qualified, abuses his professional privilege to the detriment of the Profession and the Public, and in our opinion deserves to be deprived of his pro- fessional status. Lest we should appear to have taken too severe a view of the class of professional offences to which our Beport relates, we beg leave to bring under notice of the Council the judgment which the Legislature pronounce on analogous offences when committed in the Profession of the Law. The terms in which such offences are dealt with in Section 32 of the Statute 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 73, which regulates the practice of attorneys and solicitors, are as follows :—“ And be it enacted, that if any attorney or solicitor shall wilfully and knowingly act as agent in any action or suit in any Court of law or equity, or matter in bankruptcy, for any person not duly qualified to act as an attorney or solicitor as aforesaid, or permit or suffer his name to be anyways made use of in any such action, suit, or matter, upon the account or for the profit of any unqualified person, or send any process to such unqualified person, or do any act thereby to enable such unqualified person to appear, act, or practise in any respect as an attorney or solicitor in any suit at law or in equity, knowing such person not to be duly qualified as aforesaid, and complaint shall be made thereof in a summary way to any of the said superior Courts wherein such attorney or solicitor has been admitted, and proof made thereof upon oath to the satisfaction of the Court that such attorney or solicitor hath wilfully and knowingly offended therein as afore- said, then and in such case every such attorney or solicitor so offending shall and may be struck off the roll, and for ever after disabled from practising as an attorney or solicitor; and in that case, and upon such complaint and proof made as afore- said, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Court to commit such unqualified person so acting or practising as aforesaid to the prison of the said Court without bail or main- prize, for any term not exceeding one year. ^ Before concluding this Beport, we think it our duty to state to the Council that, while conducting the inquiry committed to