Palache - the lawyer
Daily Gleaner, February 10, 1896
After leaving school Mr. Palache was articled to Mr. John Swaby Harrison late Clerk of the Peace and Magistrate's Clerk for Manchester and completed his services under Mr. T. L. Harvey of Kingston. He was admitted as a Solicitor on the 11th of February, 1873, and in June, 1885, was admitted as an Advocate on the same day as his late chief Mr. T. L. Harvey. In the practice of his profession the subject of this sketch has been eminently successful and has been engaged in some of the most notable cases tried in the Jamaica Courts. On one occasion Mr. Palache was charged by a client [T.A.S. Manley, father of Norman Manley] with having neglected his case. The matter was heard in the Supreme Court of Jamaica and afterwards was referred to the Privy Council of England when Mr. Palache was fully exonerated from all the charges made against him.
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However, J. T. Palache was struck off the roll as a solicitor in 1900 for misconduct; at least two applications to be restored were rejected. His career in the law ended in 1900.
