Legal Profession in UK Law
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Affirmative Action in the Legal Profession
This article examines whether the legal profession should use quotas and decision‐making preferences in recruitment and promotion in favour of women, ethnic minorities, and those from socially disa...
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Quo Vadis legal profession participation in anti-money laundering
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the obstacles that the ethical guidelines of legal professionals pose in the implementation of an effective anti-money laundering regime, established in the law ...
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Postmodern Professions? The Fragmentation of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
This article considers the institutional dimensions of professionalism and the legal profession's struggle with the challenges of post‐modernity. An aspect of this is the Law Society's Training Fra...
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The Legal Profession as Gatekeeper to the Judiciary: Design Faults in Measures to Enhance Diversity
The gate‐keeping role played by the legal profession in the judicial appointments process gives rise to the translation of entrenched group‐based identity hierarchies from legal practice into the j...
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Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka's Legal Profession
Drawing upon feminist standpoint theory and interviews with pioneering women lawyers in Sri Lanka, I argue for a focus on women as a distinct category in ‘legal complex theory’. I consider the foll...
- The Role of the Legal Profession in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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The Human Rights Act and Legal Culture: The Judiciary and the Legal Profession
The purpose of this article is to consider the effect the United Kingdom’s currently prevailing legal culture is likely to have on the realization of cultural change presaged by the Human Rights Ac...
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Law, Politics and Professional Projects: The Legal Profession in Hong Kong
This article attempts to theorize on the Hong Kong legal profession by examining the changing positions and roles of lawyers in three episodes of Hong Kong's recent legal history: use of Chinese as...
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Legal Exclusions: Émigré Lawyers, Admissions to Legal Practice and the Cultural Transformation of the Australian Legal Profession
Legal histories of Australia have largely overlooked the exclusion of European émigré lawyers from legal practice in Australia. This article recovers part of this forgotten history by tracing the d...
- THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH LEGAL PROFESSION
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