Law students under pressure.
A national study of around 2,400 law students, barristers and solicitors has found that around 40% of law students have experienced a level of psychological distress serious enough to necessitate a medical assessment. Close to one-third of solicitors and one in five barristers who took part in the study...

Bennett Jones welcomes Andrei Marcu As Senior Climate Change and Emissions Trading Advisor.
October 9, 2008 (Toronto, ON) - Bennett Jones LLP, already recognized both in Canada and internationally as a preeminent climate change and emissions trading law firm, today welcomed Andrei Marcu to the firm as Senior Climate Change and Emissions Trading Advisor. Mr. Marcu was formerly President and CEO of...

Model advocates or a model for change? The model equal opportunity briefing policy as affirmative action.
[This article considers a recent regulatory approach to addressing disadvantage experienced by women at the Australian Bar. The Model Equal Opportunity Briefing Policy for Female Barristers and Advocates ('MBP') developed by the Law Council of Australia in 2004 was a popular initiative which received widespread support. This article examines...

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...

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...

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 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...