Guilty pleas or trials: which does the barrister prefer?
[Barristers in England and attorneys in the United States have been upbraided for pursuing their interests to their clients' detriment in recommending guilty pleas over trials. While this accusation against American attorneys could be true since their incentives are sometimes skewed to favour guilty pleas, it is not accurate...

English reforms to judicial selection: comparative lessons for American states?
I. INTRODUCTION It is often said that Britain (1) and America are two nations divided by a common language. (2) Although the American common law system was derived from England, many fundamental differences exist between the American and English legal systems and governmental frameworks. In contrast to...

Britain agrees to review cases of disenfranchised Indians.
Byline: RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL LONDON: Britain has finally indicated it may offer retrospective fairness to an estimated 30,000 Indians who say they have been suddenly and unaccountably disenfranchised by hard-line new immigration regulation. The Indians, who took the British government to court last month, say the UK...

Indians take British govt to court over 'racist' rules.
Byline: Rashmee Roshan Lall LONDON: An estimated 30,000 Indians who left the mother country to work in Britain on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) have begun the fraught task of taking the UK government to court for its allegedly racist new immigration policies. The...

Pioneer woman journalist's career spanned two countries: Stella Allan in Wellington and Melbourne.
Author's Note: I first researched New Zealand-born journalist, Stella Allan, for my book, Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, published by Allen & Unwin in 1988. Nearly twenty years later, when I had the opportunity to give a paper at the Media History Section of...

The probity of profiling: opinions of Australian lawyers on the utility of criminal profiling in court.
Criminal profiling and its investigative utility for policing have been examined at some length despite there being only an embryonic body of robust empirical research. The use of profiling knowledge in assisting the curial process in Australian courts, however, has had much less attention, although a few academics and...

Procedural safeguards for young offenders: views of legal professionals and adolescents.
We investigated the importance of procedural safeguards for young offenders, identified by adolescents and legal professionals. Comparisons were made of the ratings of 17 individual procedural safeguards related to the story of a hypothetical young person brought before the court for stealing $50. Procedural safeguards were rated by 362...

The Making of the English Legal Profession, 1800-1988. (reprint, 1988).
1587982501 The making of the English legal profession, 1800-1988. (reprint, 1988) Abel, Richard L. BeardBooks 2005 548 pages $34.95 Paperback KD614 This reprint from 1988, originally titled The Legal Profession in...

PAR ranks continue to grow.
The number of businesses involved in the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program have more than doubled since the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) first launched the program in 2001. Ten companies demonstrated their commitment to developing good Aboriginal relations in the initial year the program was...

Companies committed to PAR program.
There were a few new faces in the crowd on Feb. 17 as the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business (CCAB) recognized the commitment of companies registered in the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program. The recognition came as part of the Circle for 2015 annual gala dinner, held...