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Describe the main differences between solicitors and barristers with regard to work and training.2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a single legal profession
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Solicitors & Barristers 1) Describe the main differences between solicitors and barristers with regard to work and training. 2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a single legal profession. 1) Background The legal profession is largely middle class, partly due to the lack of funding for professional courses. In 1999, ethnic minorities formed 8.5% of the Bar and 5% of solicitors. In 1998 ethnic minorities formed 16% of trainee solicitors and pupil barristers. Ethnic minority candidates find it more difficult to obtain training contracts, pupilage and tenancies: 7% succeeded compared to 45% of white students in 1993. Five QCs out of 69 in April 1999 were from an ethnic minority Women make up 25% of practicing barristers and 33.9% of practicing solicitors (as at July 1998). Women earn less than men and men reach higher positions (LCD Report, Without Prejudice, 1994; and a Law Society survey, September 1999). Women make up 7% of QCs (as at...
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