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Legal Methodology Assignment MSC Forensic Accounting Paul Senior Student ID: 14031395 January 2008 CONTENTS Page(s) 1. Introduction 3 2. Provision of Legal Services 4 2.1. Solicitors 4 2.2. Barristers 5 3. Fusion of the Professions 7 4. Conclusions 11 5. References and Bibliography 12 1. Introduction "There is little evidence to suggest that the formal division between barristers or solicitors is likely to end...ongoing changes may ultimately prove to have as significant an effect on the legal profession as a formal merger of the two branches. (Malleson, 2007) The provision of legal services in England and Wales involves many different types of personnel such as legal executives, licensed conveyancers, and legal clerks. But the two main providers of legal services are solicitors and barristers, and these are the professions I will be focussing on in my paper. The distinction between solicitor and barrister is growing ever smaller, and the fusion of the two professions has been spoken of at length in the past. Malleson (2007, p191) argues that due to changes in the two...

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