LAW PRACTITIONERS ACT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14282, 3 August 1908, Page 5

LAW PRACTITIONERS ACT.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT. (From Oub Own Cobrespoxbent.) WELLINGTON, August 2. The Attorney-general recently announced that he had received communications from tlio Law Students' Societies iu Teg&rd to the Law Practitioners Act Amendment Bill, which is designed to raise the status of legal education in tho Dominion, 60 that there may be ail equality of status between the New Zealand bar and that of other parts of the Empire. Dr added that ho contemplated introducing an amendment so as to safeguard the ■■ntoresfa of the students. This s now in circulation. It provides that every person who is admitted as a solicitor of tho Supreme Court within two years after tho passing of .tho act may at any time within six years after liis admission be admitted as a barrister if tho judge is satisfied that lie is of good character, and for at least tho five years continuously preceding tho date of his application has been in praotico in New Zealand as a solioitor or the managing elork of a solicitor, and has been throughout that period a solicitor of the Supreme Court and entitled to practise,. Tho rights of solicitors, admitted as such, are also safeguarded with theso saving clauses. The bill abolished the existing right, of anyone who has practised for five years ns a solicitor or managing clerk to ba admitted as a barrister without further examination.