THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 10

THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Status Raised with Cultural Subjects A recent Press Asso.eiation message stated that by the addition of three more cultural subjects to the Bachelor of Laws uegree in the TJniversity of N6w Zealand, the course had been lengthened by at least a year. Students who began the course 1938 are allowed two years to complete the degree. It is likely that a petition will be presented to the Senate by the students asking that the period of grace be extended. Students interviewed at Auckland said that in their opinion the new regulation was sponsored by the Law Society and had as its main objective a reduction in the number of passes into an already overcrowded profession, Explaining the position, Profeseor Algie, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Auckland TJniversity College, said the introduction of additional arts and subjects was based on the ground that the law course as it stood made insufficiont provision for purely cultural subjects. "It is merely part of a deliberate attempt to raise the status of the profession," said a prominAnt member of the legal profession at New Plymouth. He addSd "that the matter had been the concern of universities and law Societies for many yehfs And that this decision was the outcome of diseussions.