STATUS OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9158, 4 August 1908, Page 4

STATUS OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

The Attorney-General recently announced that he had received a communication from the Law Students' Societies in regard to the-Law Practitioners Amendment Bill, which is designed to raise the status of legal education in the Dominion, so that there*.may be an equality of status between the New' Zealand Bar and that of other parts of the Empire. Dr Findlay added that he contemplated introdu"ing an amendment so as to safeguard the interests of the students, an i this is now in circulation. It provides that every person who is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court within two years after the passing of the Act may, at any time within six years after his admission, be admitted as a barrister if the Judge is satisfied that he is of good character, and for at least five years continuously next preceding the date of his application, has been in practise in New Zealand as a solicitor, or the managing clerk of a solicitor, and • has been throughout that period a solictor of the Supreme Court and entitled to practise. The rights of solicitors already admitted as such are also safeguarded with these saving clauses; the Bill abolishes the existing right of anyone who has practised for five years as a solicitor or managing clerk to ba admitted as a barrister without farther examination. '>