Abstract
England and Wales own legal system with own legal professions:
- Solicitors and Barristers defend a client's interest in court (litigation cases) or
out of court (non-litigation cases)
- Judges
For a long time, solicitors were described as legal advisers (experts) as opposed to the
barristers who where for representation in court. But finish now with Courts and Legal
service Act 1990.
To become a solicitor, barrister, judge undergraduate lax degree (LLB) or equivalent.
Solicitors
118 000 solicitors holding practicing certificates (diploma), this number increase a
lot. To become a solicitor also needed:
- One-year full-time LPC
- Once, the LPC has been passed, he is admitted to the Roll of solicitors
- Then two-year training period as a trainee solicitor and have to pass the PSC
- At the end of the training period, he becomes a qualified solicitor
