In Re Higgins

Although the maintenance of a bar comprised only of members worthy to be entrusted with the varied responsibilities, which the active practice of the law imposes upon its ministers, is recognized as essential to the preservation of what we understand in this country to be good government, experience in the past has shown that the elimination of those who have proved themselves unworthy has been one of our most difficult tasks and one which the public has regarded, with some justification, as not having been well or fully performed.

Lawyers deal every day with problems which the frailties and…