[legal practitioner, admission of]

In re Anstey

Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land

Pedder C.J. and Montagu J., in Banco, 5 May 1840

Source: Hobart Town Courier, 8 May 1840[1]

Before both Judges

            The Attorney General upon being called on to move, rose and said that he had much pleasure in yielding to the request which had been made to him, in moving that Mr. Thomas Chisholme Anstey, a member of the English Bar, be admitted without the usual term’s notice, to practice in his honourable court as a Barrister, Solicitor, and Proctor. He granted his motion on a recent rule of this court, by which on the certificate of either of the Judges, that he was satisfied with the respectability of any member of the bar applying for admission, the term’s notice should be deemed unnecessary. The learned Puisné Judge had been pleased to grant that certificate, and it was accompanied by the certificate of the Treasurer of the Middle Temple, that Mr. Anstey had been called to the bar in June, 1839, by that honorable society. There was also Mr. Anstey’s own affidavit that he was the person referred to in that certificate. Under these circumstances it gave him very great pleasure in moving that there be added to the roll of practitioners of this court, the name of a gentleman, who, having received his elementary education in this colony, had completed that, and commenced and concluded his professional education in England, to the bar of which he had been admitted.

The Chief Justice said. - Mr. Justice Montagu anticipated me in granting a certificate, which I intimated to Mr. Anstey I should have much pleasure in granting to him. We are both perfectly satisfied that this is a case in which the ordinary notice may be dispensed with.

Mr. Anstey then took the usual oaths upon his admission.