The Lord Chancellor unveiled on Wednesday, in the Law Courts,
a bust of the late Sir George Jessel, for ten years Master of the Rolls, in the presence of a distinguished group of lawyers, who were all eager to do homage to the great Judge's achievements. Lord Halsbury was very earnest in his tribute of admiration. "Those outside the profession of the law," he said, "little know the value to the public of such judgments as Sir George Jessel's. It is doubtful and erroneous utterances of Judges which lead to ruined suitors. When the law is clearly laid down, lawyers can advise their clients as to what is hopeless and what is not." Sir George Jessel, at all events, gave out no uncertain sound. He was always clear in his own mind, always confident, and generally right. And his great swiftness of mind enabled him to give. more vivid legal guidance in ten years than many Judges would have been able to give in twenty.
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