Ex Parte Neser N.O [1914] ZATPD 105 (15 October 1914)

Attorney.-Articled clerk.-On active service.-Condonation of breach of service of Articles.-Sec. 21, Ordinance I. (Private) of 1905.

An articled clerk, during the period of service of his articles enlisted and proceeded to the front. His father meanwhile applied for an order directing that the period spent by his son on active service should not be considered or treated as having interrupted the articles of clerkship, Held, that the application was premature as ,sec. 21 of Ord. 1 (Private) of 1905 only contemplated an application to condone a breach of service after it had occurred.