ISBN: 9780198260349

Toward the end of the twentieth century, English lawyers enjoyed widespread respect and prosperity. They had survived criticism by practitioners and academics and a Royal Commission enqui… More...

Toward the end of the twentieth century, English lawyers enjoyed widespread respect and prosperity. They had survived criticism by practitioners and academics and a Royal Commission enquiry, but the final decade witnessed profound changes. First the Conservatives sought to apply laissez-faireprinciples to the profession. Then Labour transformed the legal aid scheme it had created half a century earlier. At the same time, the profession confronted cumulative changes in higher education and women''s aspirations, internal and external competition, and dramatic fluctuations in demand. Thisbook analyses the politics of professionalism during that tumultuous decade, the struggles among individual producers (barristers, solicitors, foreign lawyers, accountants) their associations, consumers (individual and corporate, public and private) and the state to shape the market for legalservices by deploying economic, political and rhetorical resources (including changing conceptions of professionalism).The profession had to respond to a greatly increased production of law graduates and the desire of lawyer mothers (and also fathers) to raise their families. It had to replace exclusivity with efforts to reflect the larger society (class, race, gender). The Bar needed to address challenges to itsexclusive rights of audience from both solicitors and employed barristers and decide whether to retaliate by permitting direct access, thereby compromising its claim to be a consulting profession. Solicitors had to reconcile their invocation of market principles against the Bar with their resistanceto corporate conveyancing and multidisciplinary practices. Government had to restrain a demand-led legal aid scheme; practitioners and their associations sought to pressure the government to expand eligibility and raise remuneration rates. Divisions within both branches so compromised self-regulation and governance that the government even threatened to deprive lawyers of those essential elements of professionalism. These challenges have begun a transformation of the legal profession that will shape its evolution throughout the twenty-first century. | English Lawyers between Market and State by Richard L Abel Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Reference > Law P10116, Richard L Abel<

2004, ISBN: 9780198260349

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Reform of the English legal professio… More...

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Reform of the English legal profession, initiated by a Conservative Lord Chancellor during the 1990s and extended by his Labour successor, transformed tradition, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Taschenbuch, 754, [GW: 1143g], Banküberweisung, PayPal<

2004, ISBN: 9780198260349

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Softcover, 1st edition. 754 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches., Neubuch, [ED: 1], [PU: Oxford Univ Pr]

2004, ISBN: 9780198260349

The Politics of Professionalism, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2004