Solicitor Essays

  • Personal Injury Solicitor Essay

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    Injury Solicitor – Find About 4 Things Before Selecting The right injury solicitor will always present your case in deeper manner that provides you extensive benefit. You know that consulting with the lawyer is the key to resolve the case matters and legal issues. But it only happens if you contacted the right injury solicitor that have years of experience with the relevant field and helps you. Let’s have look these questions and it will definitely help you while selecting the injury solicitor for

  • Solicitors Regulations SRA

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    A solicitor, or any other person employed in a firm that is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), is liable to be disciplined for a breach of the law or a breach of any part of a number of SRA Regulations. The SRA Handbook can be complex and confusing and so it can be easy for an individual or firm to unintentionally fall foul of the SRA’s various regulations. We are specialists in the interpretation and application of SRA regulations and so can advise you and your firm on a wide

  • The Analysis of Solicitors and Barristers

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    Analysis of Solicitors and Barristers 1) Describe the main differences between solicitors and barristers with regard to work and training. 2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a single legal profession. 1) Background The legal profession is largely middle class, partly due to the lack of funding for professional courses. In 1999, ethnic minorities formed 8.5% of the Bar and 5% of solicitors. In 1998 ethnic minorities formed 16% of trainee solicitors and pupil

  • The Work and Training of Barristers and Solicitors

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    The Work and Training of Barristers and Solicitors In the Western world, where the majority of employment occurs in the service sector, rather than the primary sector as it does in the developing world, there are certain jobs that carry a very high status. Careers such as doctor, accountant and lawyer are to name but a few of these high status jobs and it is lawyers that I am going to be focussing on in this essay. In England, since the 15th century lawyers have been split up into two

  • Employment Law Barrister

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    So you aren't quite convinced that you need an employment law solicitor. Well, this article should enlighten you on the value that solicitors can bring to your business--if you are the employer; or to you--if you are the employee. Being thoroughly familiar with employment law through the help of solicitors can provide you several benefits. These are provided briefly below. For the Employer First, it is something that every business owner needs--in-depth knowledge on employment and labour laws

  • The Courts and Legal Services Act of 1990

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    Legal Profession and Legal Services, it made many changes and has led to a lot more reforms since. The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 was the first major change to give solicitors full rights of audience. Solicitors already had advocacy rights in the Magistrates' Courts and the County Courts. The Act allowed solicitors with experience of advocacy in the Magistrates' Courts and County Courts to apply for a certificate of advocacy. He/She would have to take a short training course and pass

  • DRacula Chpt. In Depth Summary and Commentary

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    Summary The novel begins with the diary kept by Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, or lawyer, as he travels through Central Europe on the business of his firm. He is on his way to the castle of Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman, to conclude a deal in which the Count will purchase an English estate. We learn that he has just qualified to be a solicitor, this is his first assignment as a professional, and he is engaged to a young woman named Mina Murray. Harker describes in detail the

  • My Interest in Law

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    research, analysis and writing that goes on in my chosen subjects of English Literature, Economics & Business Studies, Politics and Theology, most especially the latter two. Securing a work experience placement with Withers Solicitors, London enabled me to interact with solicitors and gain an insight to various aspects of the legal profession such as will drafting and family law.  This increased my anxiety to study law.  During my last spring holiday (April 2001), I got a job working as a receptionist

  • Studying Law within a Broad Context

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    work experience in a non-governmental organisation (HCA) helped me to distinguish the different types of problems faced by those who were seeking help from the organisation, such as injustice and civil conflict. My work experience with a freelance solicitor has also been invaluable in gaining practical skills in the implementation of the existing law system. My work experiences have undoubtedly built upon the skills I have gained through my academic experiences. Throughout my studies I have successfully

  • Dracula

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    years he wrote his greatest novel, Dracula. Stoker wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and lectures, but Dracula is by far his most famous work and perhaps the most well known horror novel. Summery: Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, is sent to the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. But he ends up finding out that the count is actually a vampire and flees. As Dracula the vampire successfully reach London, he transforms

  • Laws, Lawyers, and Punishment in the Victorian Period

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    -those who prepared the cases for these lawyers- attorneys, solicitors, proctors •Courtroom lawyers held more prestige especially the barrister, who was often well born •To become a barrister one had to go to a certain number of dinners at the Inns of Court for 3 years. Then if you were approved of by the older lawyers you’d be “called to the bar” and then could become a barrister. There was no exam required. •Solicitors had to serve as an in-between between the barristers and their clients

  • Child Pornography and the Supreme Court

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    In this paper we shall present an important case involving the governments attempt to defend a child-protection law designed to guard minors against internet pornography. In Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 00-795, the court heard arguments over the Child Pornography Protection Act of 1996 (CPPA).(Ashcroft) The production or possession of actual child pornography was illegal prior to 1996; the CPPA broadened the definition of child pornography to include images that merely appear to be children

  • Dracula

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    CHAPTER 1 1876 Summary Chapter 1 starts with the main persona, Jonathan Harker; a solicitor clerk making a journey to Transylvania at he behest of a client Count Dracula. Jonathan starts making entries in his journal on May 3. He leaves Munich and arrives at Vienna Budapest. He stops at Hotel Royale, where he has dinner but his night is restless as he has queer dreams. He starts out again in the morning boarding the train at Bistritz. As directed by the Count, he goes to Golden Krone Hotel, where

  • Somerset Maugham

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    Somerset Maugham Somerset Maugham was born on January 25, 1874 in Paris where his father was the solicitor to the British Embassy. However, he was orphaned at the age of ten and lived with his uncle, the vicar of Whitstable, in England. Maugham was educated in England studying literature and philosophy at Heidelberg University. In 1897 he qualified as a surgeon from St. Thomas’ medical school and practiced for a year in the slums of London. However, he abandoned medicine after the success of

  • Career: My Aspiration For My Future Legal Career

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    career: My aspiration for my future legal career is to become a solicitor. This is despite the competition and entry difficulties this sector is known for, which I will address later on. In a practical sense there are two entry routes, which is either through the LPC (1 year course) and then a 2-year training contract or Cilex fast track and 3 years qualifying employment . The Cilex route is to become a legal executive rather than a solicitor. However, the job description of the two is similar and it

  • John Locke

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    Locke published just five years before his death, John Locke's life demonstrates how God uses a mind dedicated to honest pursuit of ultimate Truth. On August 9, 1632 he was born in the village of Wrington in Somercast. His father was a country solicitor and small landowner who fought in the English Civil War on the Puritan side. During his early childhood, the king, Parliament, Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics all were in conflict with each other which lead to the civil war in 1640. In 1646

  • A Humorous and Heartfelt Wedding Speech

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    until I got closer and heard them saying, 'You!', 'no, you!' I've known Frank for the best part of 20 years now and of course there are plenty of things I could tell you about what we got up to in our younger days. Unfortunately, I did consult my solicitor and he tells me that we could still face prosecution, so maybe I’ll keep things to a minimum and talk about how nice he is. Frank is a quality ac...

  • Solicitors in the 19th Century

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    The Middle Man: Solicitors in the 19 th Century “I have been, Eugene, upon the honourable roll of solicitors of the High Court of Chancery, and attorneys at Common Law . . .” --Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend The Profession * There were two branches of the legal profession - barristers, and attorneys and solicitors. Solicitors usually dealt with landed estates and attorneys advised parties in lawsuits. The two roles combined and the name “solicitor” was adopted (The Law Society).

  • The Work of a Solicitor and a Barrister

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    The Work of a Solicitor and a Barrister In the legal profession, there are two main categories of a lawyer. These two categories are barristers and solicitors. Between the two there are differences such as their training, their wages as well as their individual roles. In this essay, I will be discussing the different areas and how they differ. I will also compare them to each other and will analyse and evaluate them. To train as a barrister, you need a degree of at least at upper second

  • Barrister And Solicitors: A Case Study

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    The idea behind fusion or is developed on the idea of the merging or collaboration of a key element. In relevance to this essay, this would be the merging of solicitors and barristers to be a part of one profession. There is a lot of debate on whether or not the jobs that are completed by the two professions are actually different. Solicitors are generally the people who provide clients with information and support regarding their case. This can be provided to a wide variety of people, whether they