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Committee on Absolute Liability. He was a member of the Council of Law Reporting and of the Law Revision Commission. He was councillor and then chairman of the Council of Legal Education. He was president
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Freyberg based on his shorthand and typing skills. In January 1940, White was invited to meet Freybert and within 36 hours, he was commissioned as a
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