Page "Architects Registration Board" Paragraph 17

On an appeal to the Divisional Court in 1957 concerning a pure breach of the Code of Professional Conduct under the legislation then in force ( the architect was practising an estate agent's business as well as his own ), when the registration body was constituted under the name the Architects ' Registration Council of the United Kingdom, Mr Justice Devlin ruled: " It is not of itself disgraceful to disagree with a majority view and to act accordingly.

It is only if a man has bound himself in honour to accept that view and to act according to the code that a deliberate breach of the code for his own profit can be called disgraceful ".

In the course of giving judgment in this appeal Lord Chief Justice Goddard had mentioned a letter which had been sent in 1937 by " the president of the council " to the Institute of Chartered Surveyors recognizing the fact that there was nothing in a Bill, which the council was then promoting ( and which subsequently became the Architects Registration Act, 1938 ), to interfere with the activities of registered architects.