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42 Can. L. Times 488 (1922)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

handle is hein.journals/canlawtt42 and id is 500 raw text is: THE CANADIAN LAW TIMES. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. By C. B. FORSYTH. In the Provinces of Canada to-day, there are hundreds of lawyers daily striving to emulate Psychic Miracles, in comparison with which the performances of the hero of Stevenson's wonderful nightmare draina fade into insignificance. Functioning at one moment as Mr. Jekyll, the Solicitor, he must, in the' twinkling of an eye, assume the role of Mr. Hyde, the Barrister, or if the simile thus put offends, you are at liberty to reverse it. In all older countries, one finds the profession of law divided into two separate branches, with a well defined line of demarcation 'between the practitioners of each. In England, Scotland and Ireland this separation has now existed long enough in its present form for time, the infallible Judge of good and evil, to definitely and finally pronounce in its favour, and it has never been suggested there, either by the Barrister or by the Solicitor, that a double-barrelled legal luminary would be an advantage to either, to the Public or to the State. That the occutpations of attor- ney and advocate should be merged in the early days of a new country may be a necessary expedient, but it is surely a most undesirable makeshift and ought to be abandoned at the earliest possible moment at which the progress of the country permits. Has not Canada already reached that point? An Attorney meaning simply one who acts for another and an Advocate one who pleads for another, they much more clearly show the essential difference between the equivalents, Solicitor and Barrister, in use in England and Canada. Indeed, it is no compli- ment to be called a Solicitor in some countries, par- ticularly in the United States of America for instance, where it is applied 'to. a 'travelling salesman or [VOL. 42

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