Non-solicitor and barrister advocates who insinuate they are lawyers and are permitted to appear in the Employment Court are of great concern and must be reined in, say several lawyers
A new bill will allow a person to be tried and convicted of a criminal offence without seeing all the information relied on by the Crown and without the right to be present, the NZ Law Society says.
A "legal practice course" of just three areas of law (whatever they are) is compared to a requirement of three Arts units plus sixteen areas of law to be passed while attending University before and after a full day's work as a Law Clerk would wreak havoc, not least with the service offered to the public.The profession as such would cease to exist.The person advancing the proposition needs to clarify it. Surely it cannot be as stupid in he form in which it is asked.