CORRESPONDENCE
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1972.tb01338.x |
| Date | 01 May 1972 |
| Published date | 01 May 1972 |
| Author | G. P. Wilson |
CORRESPONDENCE
THE ORMROD REPORT
THE
EDITOR,
Modern Law Review.
Dear Sir,
I
am, of course, sorry to think that Professor Harvey
(ante,
p.
223)
should
think anything
I
have written might be counterproductive. But
I
wonder
what he means. What
I
wrote, which incidentally
I
wrote in April, in the
two weeks after the Ormrod Report was published (which was the reason
why there is no reference in it to the discussions
at
the Edinburgh
S.P.T.L.
conference in September), was meant to contribute to discussions about the
report. Professor Harvey now makes the point that
I
may be wrong. But
that is exactly what discussion is about. Someone writes something then
someone else points out mistakes and omissions. The result-hopefully-more
enlightenment all round.
So
Professor Harvey can perfectly well make his
point that he thinks
I
have
a
grander notion of the context in which the
vocational training should take place than he has without the additional
suggestions that one must not frighten the profession
or
one's colleagues by
appearing to fall into their stereotype of the woolly academic
or
that his
views are in some way more down to earth.
I
have
also
been told that some
of the younger members
of
the staff of the Law Society School in Guildford
felt that
I
had underestimated their present involvement in practical training.
I
hope that
I
did. One asset which Guildford has which
I
may also have
underestimated was the connections they have built up with practitioners who
can be called in to assist even though they are not working
or
resident
in the local
area.
It
remains the case that in my view there
is
a need to
bridge the gap between activity in the universities and professional practice,
a
need for continuing training, and for research and discussion in which both
academics and practitioners take part, and that it would be useful to bear
this in mind when considering the way of dealing with the problem of
vocational training, rather than seeing the latter
as
an isolated problem
of an essentially administrative financial and low level character.
G.
P.
WILSON
Professor of Law
Bchool
of
Law,
Warm'ck
University.
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