Appendix VII

TRUE COPY OF THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE BENCHERS OF INNER TEMPLE ON 10TH NOVEMBER 1922 DISBARRING GANDHIJI AND REMOVING HIS NAME FROM THE ROLL OF BARRISTERS ON HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCE TO SIX YEARS' IMPRISONMENT ON 18TH MARCH 1922 BY THE COURT OF THE SESSIONS JUDGE, AHMEDABAD

Inner Temple

At a Parliament holden
Friday, 10th day of November 1922

WHEREAS at a Bench Table holden on the 7th day of November 1922 the Treasurer having reported that he had received a certified copy of the conviction and sentence to six years' imprisonment of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a Barrister of this Inn at the Court of the Sessions Judge, Ahmedabad, India on the 18th of March 1922 for sedition. It was ordered — That Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi having been convicted by a competent Tribunal of an offence which in the opinion of the Bench disqualifies him from continuing a Member of the Inn should have his name removed from the books. And at the same Bench Table. It was further ordered — That at the Parliament to be holden on Friday the 10th day of November 1922 the said Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi be disbarred and his name removed from the books of this society and that this Order be communicated to the judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature to the other Inns of Court to the General Council of the Bar and by registered letter to the said Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and be screened in the Hall.

It is at this Parliament ordered — That the said Order be and the same is hereby confirmed and the said Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is hereby disbarred and his name removed from the books of this society.

Walter G. Wrangham

Sub-Treasurer

Mahatma, Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, D. G. Tendulkar Vol. II, Times of India Press, Bombay (1951), p. 136