Solicitors (criticisms)

Question 1

What question did one critic pose?

Answer 1

Posed the question of whether the public would be satisfied with doctors who gave only studied medicine for one year, concentrating on only 6 subjects. Yet this is precisely what is occurring in the legal profession

Question 2

A third problem is over supply.

Why is this?

Answer 2

Students who have passed the LPC are unable to obtain a training contract.
This can be a problem particularly during times of economic crisis when legal firms will be cutting back rather than recruiting

Question 3

Why is a lack of legal knowledge a criticism?

Answer 3

• Non law graduates do only one year of formal law for the CPE or GDL
• There have been many recommendations that the main entry route should be via a law degree but in practice 25% of solicitors will not have taken a law degree