JUDGMENT

Davey, J. - This is an appeal from an order, dated the 21st March 1906, of the Chief Court of Lower Burma, by which order the appellant was dismissed from his office as an advocate of that Court.

2. The appellant was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn on the 17th November 1891, having previously been admitted as an attorney of the Calcutta High Court in 1879, and from the year 1881 was an advocate of the Court of the Recorder of Rangoon, until the establishment of the Chief Court of Lower Burma, and from that date he has been an advocate of the last-named Court.

3. On the 9th March 1906 the appellant was served with an Order of the Chief Court, whereby he was called upon to show cause why he should not be dismissed or suspended from his office as advocate of the Court in the event of two charges which had been framed by the Court, or either of them, being found to be true. These charges were as follows:

1. That you, whilst employed as an advocate for the prosecution of Maung E. Maung and others charged with having abducted Ma Nu, the daughter of Maung Ohn Ghine, C.I.E., and his wife, Ma Yeik, having been made aware that some letters had been received