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7 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 5 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro7 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS, VOL. 7, NO. 1, 2000 Editorial AVROM SHERR Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London), London, UK This issue brings together three papers revolving around the regulation of legal professions. Two articles bring forward issues about legal regulation in the civil law world from jurisdictions rarely covered by English language literature. Marcos provides an account of the movement into legal work by accountancy and consultancy firms in Spain. His description shows how previous studies in the common law world are echoed in a jurisdiction with many regional bars and a professional grouping still largely based on sole practitioners and small firms. Different professional regulations even in different cultures cannot stem the commer- cial tide but much can be learned about the difficulties of multi-disciplinary practices from experience in other countries. Seneviratne looks at regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales through the viewpoint of consumer complaints whose increasing numbers have presented enormous difficulty to the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors. She describes and evaluates the regulatory mechanisms which are in place to deal with these complaints and assesses the likely impact of Government proposals in ensuring public confidence in complaints handling. Blomquist also looks at complaints and discipline, but this time in Denmark. She produces a convincing argument for comparison of professional regulatory issues across the common law-civil law divide and shows how the Danish system has also followed an American pathway. She then analyses the history of changes in complaints handling over the last fifteen years, suggesting what can be learned about the stance and purpose of professional regulation in Denmark from this work. Each of these articles and the issues they address provide an important vantage point for assessing legal professions in transition and demonstrating how regulation works and is used within such conditions. Together they provide a picture of slow movement towards some global standardisation of lawyer regulation. ISSN0969-5958print/ISSN 1469-9257online/00/010005-01 0 2000 Taylor & Francis Ltd

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