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OverviewPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE CO-.CF.HN1NG TIIK EDUCATION FOR THE BAR IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. I. It may have been gathered from the foregoing pages, that no preliminary course of study, or examination into legal proficiency, is required from candidates for admission to the English Bar. Such is the case also with the Irish Bar. They are not bound to attend any lectures at either of the Universities or elsewhere. Whether this might advantageously be ordered otherwise, is a difficult question. Some persons of judgment and experience are of opinion, that an examination into the fitness, in respect of legal knowledge, of law students, is as requisite as are the examinations prescribed to candidates for admission into holy orders, and into the medical profession. Without expressing any opinion as to the expediency of adopting such a course, we content ourselves with saying, that numerous practical difficulties will suggest themselves to all experienced lawyers. II. Advocates in Scotland (of whom there are numerically between 400 and 500, but not more than 100 actually engaged in practice) are not required to follow any course of preliminary study, but must undergo certain probationary trials. In order to be admitted a member of the Faculty, the applicant for admission presents a petition to the Court, slating his wish to become an advocate, and intimating his readiness to undergo a trial of his skill. This application is referred by the Court to the Dean of the Faculty; who remits the applicant to the private examiners, (being a certain number of the members of the body appointed annually by the Dean to discharge that duty) to make trial of his fitness. The candidate then appears before these examiners, and on satisfying them that he is twenty years of age, a... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel WarrenPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com Dimensions: Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.626kg ISBN: 9780217161947ISBN 10: 0217161944 Pages: 700 Publication Date: 08 July 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |