Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. HORRESCO REFERENS. Appearing as counsel for one's friends?Hawkins' indignant client? The learned counsel followed wherever he goes?The persecution becomes unendurable?My advice is asked?We resolve to bide our time?The threat: " I'll have your life"?We apply for a summons?The persecution comes to an end?Lord Marcus Beresford charged with assault?I appear for the defence?An embarrassing position?How I got rid of one of the Justices ?Telegrams from the course?He did not ride the winner. An advocate is always interested in the client he represents. I do not, indeed, believe that I was ever in a case, be it never so trivial, in which I was not anxious about the result. In my opinion, however, the most trying time for an advocate is when he appears as counsel for a friend. I have been in this unpleasant situation on several occasions. I was .once counsel for Mr. Justice Hawkins, when he was at the Bar and plain Mr. Hawkins, Q.C. He was not only one of the greatest and most astute advocates of his time in ordinary civil cases, but he had the largest practice in compensation claims. The once celebrated and now defunct Metropolitan . AN INDIGNANT LITIGANT. 13 Board of Works had taken over certain premises situated close to the site of the London Pavilion, about which so much has been heard. The parties could not agree as to the cost at which the premises should be acquired, and the case was accordingly brought into Court, Mr. Hawkins being retained as the leading counsel for the owner of the property. The latter was dissatisfied with the result of the trial, as the sum awarded to him fell far short of that to which he felt himself entitled; and he straightway came to the conclusion which so many litigants have come to, namely, that his case had not been pro...