Thomson CJ (delivering oral judgment or, preliminary point):

The second appellant in this appeal is the Chairman of the Ipoh Town Council.

We now have before us an application by Federal Counsel to appear on his behalf and represent him on the hearing of the appeal.

Before proceeding to the actual application itself, let us consider the relevant provisions of the law. I start with Ch. 17 of the old laws of the Federated Malay States. Section 15 gave the Legal Adviser, as he then was, certain rights of audience. That Enactment was still in force when the Advocates and Solicitors Ordinance, 1947, was enacted. That Ordinance gave extensive, and Indeed almost exclusive, rights of audience to legal practitioners admitted to practise in accordance with its terms but it dealt with the rights of audience of Government law officers in s. 56(2) which provides that:

nothing herein shrill affect the right (which is hereby declared) of the Attorney General and ..............Federal Counsel to appear and to plead and do all other things necessary in respect of litigation or proceedings in any Court in the Malayan Union.

The effect of that sub-section was considered by Wilson J, in t