ABSTRACT
Few people will consider that the present income limits under the Poor Persons' Rules—£2 a week or, in special circumstances, £4. a week—are sufficiently high in 1944 to cover all persons who are prevented by lack of means from bringing legal proceedings in the High Court, or for that matter the County Court. This income limit was fixed in 1921 as a result of the recommendations of the first Lawrence Committee. 1 Previously there had only been a capital test and more cases had been accepted than there were solicitors to conduct them.
