Law Society Gazette 6 June 2016 

Society welcomes super-exam delay

The Law Society has welcomed the SRA’s decision to delay plans for a new ‘super-exam’ to be taken by all would-be solicitors, after the proposal attracted an overwhelmingly negative response. 

1 June 2006

Profession faces £27m reform bill

Lawyers are to foot a £27m bill – more than twice the government’s original estimate – to pay for the move to a new system of legal services regulation. The revelation came last week as the lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, published the draft Legal Services Bill. 

5 June 1996

Ticking time bomb

Computer systems are being threatened by the ‘millennium bomb’. And, if you have not done so yet, now is the time to take information technology very seriously. 

4 June 1986

Young solicitors want fusion

The Young Solicitors Group issued a paper, Reorganisation of the Legal Profession, which calls for the introduction of fusion and the ending of ‘restrictive practices’. 

June 1956

Women and the law

The merits of women as lawyers are well established, but Miss Indra Somasegaram advocates their still wider admission with the novel, if not very convincing, argument that since ‘criminal acts are mostly connected with a woman or centre round a female character’, a high proportion of women lawyers is essential. This is not an argument which ought to be repeated widely lest other sections of the community whose connection with crime is even closer claim proportional representation. 

June 1926

Legal aid for the poor

The first report of the Committee on Legal Aid for the Poor has been published. The committee was appointed by the lord chancellor and home secretary to enquire what facilities exist for giving to poor persons advice with respect to their legal rights and liabilities. 

 

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