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3 Poly L. Rev. 1 (1977-1978)

handle is hein.journals/polylawr3 and id is 1 raw text is: Poly Law Review Volume 3 no 1 Autumn 1977 £1.25 Contents Legal Education Rt Hon Lord Justice Ormrod United we stand ? Michael Zander Looking at Lawyers Charles Wegg-Prosser Communications Satellites Robert L. Brown Book Reviews Books Received EDITORIAL Law is being pressed to catch up with life and some of the results are unsettling. The fact that the Royal Commission on Legal Services is looking hard at long-standing practices seems to have encouraged actual changes as well as radical proposals. The rule that a silk must always have a junior has been abolished, and the 7 new President of the Law Society is arguing for a form of con- tingency fee to make legal representation more available. Stirring up litigation by champerty and maintenance was a crime until ten years ago; it is still generally considered unethical for lawyers to have a financial stake in the outcome of a case. 10 Legal education is changing nearly as rapidly as the law itself. This autumn the Polytechnic of Central London and the City University have taken over from the Inns of Court the job of giving a grounding in the law to graduates from other disciplines. The Ormrod Committee stimulated this change among others, and its Chairman, Lord Justice Ormrod, discusses the education 21 of lawyers in his article. Heretically, he concedes that it is possible, though boring, to learn law from the nutshells scorned by lecturers. In our interview, Professor Michael Zander argues for abolishing the division between barristers and solicitors. In addition to all 27 the practical advantages of fusion, he asserts that it is demeaning for solicitors to be considered second-class lawyers, a difference in status - quite irrespective of the merits of the individual lawyers involved. Charles Wegg-Prosser, a first-class solicitor (and by no means a second-class lawyer!), looks at lawyers through history, in par- ticular the recent development of neighbourhood law centres. In a wide-ranging article, he derides the Marxist theory of law, and notes that radio programmes seem to be better than television or the press at presenting legal issues. He also mentions the ancient Chinese way of discouraging litigation: all the parties and wit- nesses (though apparently not the officials) were tortured. Robert Brown's article on law and commercial satellites des- cribes how international law has responded to the space age in order, among other things, to bring World Cup football to the world. It is also something of a trailer for our next issue on law and communication. May you live in interesting times is an old Chinese curse. The new developments in law and legal practice make legal life more interesting and less remote - more of a blessing than a curse.

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