(DOWNLOAD) "Some Reflections on Legal Professional Ethics: Plus Ca Change...." by University of Western Sydney Law Review " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Some Reflections on Legal Professional Ethics: Plus Ca Change....
- Author : University of Western Sydney Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
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The issue for the week 23-29 January 2010 of The Economist carries a major article with the heading 'Laid-off Lawyers, Cast-off Consultants'. The general thrust of the article is stated sufficiently for present purposes in the sub-heading: 'The downturn is sorting the best professional-services firms from the rest'. The article concludes with the following admonition: Anyone who has practised for any significant time as a barrister or a solicitor in New South Wales is apt to react to this rather prim and patronizing exhortation by, as it were, battening down the professional hatches in the expectation of yet another bout of what its advocates from time to time are pleased to describe as 'reform'. The legal profession in New South Wales has been 'reformed' without cease during recent decades, and by governments of various political persuasions. There has resulted a gimcrack mess of sorry interferences with legal professional practice such as to vindicate convincingly the observation, rather rueful one is inclined to think, made by Senator Roscoe W Conkling (United States Senator for New York in 1867, 1873 and 1879 and famously corrupt):