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Solicitors spurn new QC selection system
The new Queen's Counsel system has failed to boost the number of solicitors applying, it has emerged. Of the 443 applications received, just 12 were from solicitors, compared to ten of the 394 who applied in the final competition run by the government in 2002/03, before the award's suspension. ...
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Lightening The Load
I read with interest the letter from Robert Venables, both expressing concerns about the propriety these days of advising anyone, particularly any professional, to become a trustee, while at the same time extolling the virtues of volunteer service (see [2005] Gazette, 13 October, 17). However, the adjoining letter from Zoe ...
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Opening doors
The Law Society’s diversity scheme is in its second year, providing access to legal education to those held back by medical, financial or other circumstances. Grania Langdon-Down profiles the beneficiaries At the age of 23, Amanda Rogers broke her neck in a fall down a flight of stairs ...