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City Councillor John D. Lynch's Communist registration bill ended in defeat yesterday when City Solicitor John A. Daly told the City Council that "there is no law under which the chief of police can require Communists to register or call people before him to determine their opinions...
...City Solicitor John A. Daly said yesterday that the "Reducators" list which names GS faculty members as "Communists, Communists Sympathizers, or fellow travelers" cannot, under libel laws, legally be copied and given to the nine City Councillors and the Chief of Police...
...pamphlet put out by the British Law Society explained: "If your means are small and you have reasonable grounds for taking, defending, or being a party to proceedings in the High Court of Justice or Court of Appeal, you can have the free services of a solicitor and, where necessary, of a barrister.* If your means are moderate, you can have such services in return for a contribution assessed according to your ability...
...solicitor gives legal advice and may represent his client in lower courts. Barristers are trial lawyers, and only barristers may argue in appellate courts...
Lynch said that he will force the City Solicitor to give a legal opinion on the two bills at Monday's Council session