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The English legal system comprises of two different branches, barristers and solicitors.
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Essay 1.a) The English legal system comprises of two different branches, barristers and solicitors. In the UK at the moment there are around 9,000 barristers and they are known collectively as the 'Bar'. The governing body for barristers is the Bar Council, which acts as a kind of trade union, safe guarding the interests of barristers and regulating barristers training and activities. All barristers belong to one of the 4 Inns - Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Grays Inn or Lincolns Inn. There are no significant differences between any of the Inns. The majority of barristers work in private practices and they work as individuals. Barristers aren't allowed to form formal partnerships and they usually work from sets of 'chambers' in which a number of barristers are supported by a clerk or clerks. Although barristers are individuals, within their chambers they operate under the 'cab-rank rule'. This means that the barristers must accept...
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