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The Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana Law School says plans by government to expand access to legal education must not be mere rhetoric.
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Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Nick Robinson explores two case studies outside the United States the United Kingdom and Australia where reforms aimed at improving access to justice, among other things, have opened the market for legal services to the ownership, investment, and management of individuals without legal training. Robinson examines the ethical dimensions of these changes as well as the limitations on our ability to draw definitive conclusions from these case studies based on what data is and is not available (for more on tracking the impacts of regulatory reform, see “Quality Metrics for Regulatory Reform”). Notwithstanding these qualifications, Robinson explores some significant implications of these reforms, such as their capacity to improve access to and affordability of legal services. Below, we briefly review the cases of regulatory reform in the United Kingdom and Australia and highlight Robinson’s observations on their impact on access. For a comp
Former policeman Iskandar Rahmat, who is on death row for the high-profile Kovan double murder of 2013, will have a chance to argue before the Court of Appeal that his defence team should be investigated for misconduct.
A five-judge panel, ruling against the Law Society yesterday, said complainants who are pursuing disciplinary probes against lawyers have the right to appeal all the way to Singapore s highest court.
The court s decision overruled the legal position that was set in a 2011 case, which the Law Society had relied on - known as Top Ten Entertainment - in arguing that Iskandar had no right of appeal.
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 07:42 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Lawyer Goh Cia Yee (left) handing the petition and signatures to National Young Lawyers and Pupils’ Committee chairman Yusfarizal Yusoff (right), outside the Wisma Badan Peguam building in Kuala Lumpur December 16, 2020. Picture by Firdaus Latif
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 A group of lawyers spoke out today to defend the rights of trainee lawyers in Malaysia to fair pay and humane work conditions.
The group of eight comprising young and senior lawyers stood outside Wisma Badan Peguam on Leboh Pasar Besar here, the headquarters of the Malaysian Bar the statutory body representing all lawyers in the peninsula demanding minimum wage for the trainees who are also known as chambering students or pupils.