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Discipline And Expulsion Of Attorneys Will Be Taken Up Members of Florida State Bar Association will convene in Pan ama City Friday for a two-day session of the mid-year confer ence of association delegates, with the Bay county association acting as the host organizer. Proposed revision of the crim inal code for the state and the control of admission, discipline and expulsion of attorneys, sometimes referred to as the uni fied or integrated bar, will be discussed at this conference, ac cording to an announcement made by President Lewis Twy man, of Miami, who will be pres ent. Old Organization The State Bar Association is said to be the oldest organization in the state, having been organ ized as @ society before Florida was admitted to the union as @ state. Since its organization, the association has been active in the promotion of justice and legal administration. Many problems pertinent to the bar will be discussed at the regular sessions which will be held in the city hall. To Be Entertained PA, Roll, as president of the Bay County Bar association is acting as representative of the host group. Entertainment plans include arrangements for the pleasure of those who attend as visitors and will not be presents delegates during executive meet inggs The Dixie-Sherman hotel has been designated as the official headquarters of visiting attor neys, while the Panama Country club, the St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club and the Elks club have sig nified their wishes to have their homes listed on the “open house” roster. Locals Represented Delegates from the Florida State Bar Association and 37 lo cal Bar associations will be here. The conference of delegates was organized some eight years as a working body of the State Bar association to was invited the of all local associations. This has given the members of the bar @ broad representation from several outstanding legal reforms have been effected during the last few years. The first product of the ference of Delegates was a passage through the legislature of a complete new chancery act, which has been the law of state since the 1931 session of legislature. The next ing reform in the field of re procedure was the enactment by the 1933 legislature of a com plete new probate act. Two items Foremost The meeting in Panama City will devote itself to two items which now constitute the legisla tive program of the organized lawyers of Florida. The commit tee on Criminal Procedure, which has devoted more than a year to the study of a proposed criminal code for Florida, wil make its report, which will be studied by the delegates present. If it is approved it will go el — State Bar wich meets in the early, a 1937 for adoption and pre sentation to the legislature. There has been much criti of criminal procedure in Pic particularly of its delays — loopholes and the attorney: the state are eager to and make more definite as it relates to cri tica.
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Panama City Herald
Panama City, Florida, US
Thu, Oct 22, 1936
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