An Articled Clerk

On 18 February 1940, Edward Stratten Williams began his articles of clerkship with the Cairns law firm, J. F. Fitzgerald and Walsh. 

Mr James Fitzgerald had often acted as the Williams family’s solicitor and this close relationship secured a clerkship for Edward.

Solicitors Examination Results

Intermediate, March 1942
History of Common Law and Equity: 78
Property: 77
Contracts: 70
Constitutional Law: 76
Trust Account and Book-keeping in relation thereto: 98

First Section Final, August 1942:
Equity: 73
The law of wrongs: 70
The law of real property and the practice of conveyancing: 72
The law of personal property and contracts, company law and practice: 68

Second Section Final, November 1942
Practice of the court in all other than its insolvency and criminal jurisdictions: 77
The practice of the courts of inferior jurisdictions: 72
Insolvency law and practice: 78
Criminal law and practice: 79

These exam results are remarkable considering Edward served out the three years of his articles whilst an active member of the 2/14th Light Horse Regiment.

However, great events were afoot, and Edward’s time with Fitzgerald and Walsh was inevitably interrupted by the Second World War. 

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