Book Review: Lawyers
| Published date | 01 December 1978 |
| Date | 01 December 1978 |
| Author | C. J. H. Thomson |
| DOI | 10.1177/0067205X7800900408 |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
1978] Book Reviews 525
that will not prevent this book from taking its well-merited place on
the desk of every lawyer concerned with trade practices in Australia.
G. de
Q.
WALKER*
Lawyersby
JULIAN
DISNEY,
LL.B.
(Hons.) (Adel.), Barrister and Solicitor
of the Supreme
Court
of South Australia, Formerly Lecturer in Law,
University of New South Wales, Presently Law Reform Commissioner,
New South Wales,
JOHN
BASTEN,
LL.B.
(Hons.) (Adel.), B.e.L.
(Oxon.),
Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Lecturer in Law,
University of New South Wales,
PAUL
REDMOND,
B.A.,
LL.M.
(Syd.),
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Lecturer in Law,
University of New South Wales,
STAN
Ross,
B.A.
(Brook.),
M.A.
(San
Fran.
State),
J.D.
(Calif.), Member of the California Bar, Senior
Lecturer in Law, University of New South Wales, with the assistance of
RICK
RAFT'OS,
B.COM.,
LL.B.
(N.S.W.),
Barrister of the Supreme
Court
of New South Wales.
(The
Law Book Company Limited,
1977),
pp.
i-xliii, 1-758. Cloth, recommended retail price $35.50 (ISBN: 0455
19501
3).
Paperback, recommended retail price $28.50 (ISBN: 0455
19502
1).
To agree to review a 750 page book while preparing to depart for
study leave would appear not only irresponsible
but
to render the
temptation to skim lightly over only some of those pages almost irre-
sistible.
In
the majority of cases
that
would be the result. However,
although the commitment to review this book was made in those
circumstances, the temptation has been remarkably easy to resist. This
is
due to the authors' diligence in collecting alarge and heterogeneous
quantity of valuable and interesting information on the legal profession
and their striking ability to edit, organise, present and comment on
that
material in a
manner
that
is
at
once uncomplicated, unbiassed and
lucid.
The book
is
designed as atext for students studying the legal profes-
sion
or
some aspects of its structure, organisation, discipline, ethics and
practices. Accordingly, the primary purpose of the book
is
the presen-
tation of adequate information on the profession in Australia.
That
information
is
provided by extracts from periodical articles, monographs,
survey results, government reports, judicial and professional rulings,
and results of the authors' own research.
The content
is
divided into three parts entitled Structure of the
Profession (Chapters 1-6); Delivery of Legal Services (Chapters 7-10);
and Lawyer and Client (Chapters 11-14).
Part
Icovers the history of
the profession in Australia, including the debate about fusion
or
division of the profession, astatistical profile of the members of the
*LL.B. (Hons.) (Syd.), S.l.D.
(Penn.);
Senior Lecturer, Law School, Australian
Nationa! University.
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