On Studying Lawyers: An Aid to Law Reform

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• This inexact but useful term means law made or controlled by the Judges and legal profession rather than by Parliament and popular demand. It includes powers and procedures of the courts and the legal profession, as well as large sections of substantive law, e.g. contracts.
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• In this essay “vested interests” or “sectional interests” implies no sinister connotation. There are legitimate sectional interests and influences; and they may be conscious or unconscious, financial or other—interests in status, the quiet life, or in not being required to justify old prerogatives to modern society. But when such interests affect so central an institution as law, they require detached examination.
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• The social implications of the “division” like those of the division generally have received scant study. For a good summary treatment see Johnstone and Hopson, op. cit. , pp. 385 – 98 .
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• Time and again the Bar has opposed procedural reform, even though such reforms are seldom initiated until long overdue (cf. Abel-Smith and Stevens, op. cit. , 36, 48, 83, 92, etc.; Jackson, op. cit., p. 430 .
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• Jackson , op. cit. , p. 255 ; solicitors have their vested interests too (cf. Abel-Smith and Stevens, op. cit., Ch. VIII) but generally not in litigation. “Domestic” cases, especially, are a non-paying nuisance to most solicitors (op. cit., p. 404) .
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• a. This article may serve to remove the puzzlement but not, it is hoped, the concern.
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• a. “Undefendeds” and their paper-work provide a good income for barristers with the requisite solicitor-contacts, but mock the “specialist” arguments for the separate Bar.
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• Lawyers may stultify some changes after Parliament has adopted them. An 1891 Victorian Act abolishing the barrister/solicitor division was defeated by “a professional conspiracy, ably abetted by the judges” ( Sawer : Jnl. Public Law , 6 at 494 ); a like fate befell a similar Queensland Act of 1881.
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