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The legal profession in the 1990s – images of change1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Cyril Glasser
Cyril Glasser*
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University College, London
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As someone who has spent a lot of time examining the underlying economic and social factors which affect lawyers and the services which they provide, I have to admit that I have no special insights which inform me how the legal profession will alter over the next few years. So much has happened in the recent past, such is the state of flux in the wake of the government's green and white papers that it would be a very foolish person who would confidently predict developments. Even the enactment of the Courts and Legal Services Bill will only provide a limited framework for the changes which are now taking place and further legislation may be necessary within a short period.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1990

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Footnotes

1

A revised version of a lecture given at the Annual Conference of the Society of Public Teachers of Law at Aberystwyth, 22 September 1989.

References

2 T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd edn, 1970) at p 138.

3 National Board for Prices and Incomes, Report No 54, Remuneration of Solicitors (Cmnd 3529, 1968) at pp 49, 51.

4 Law Society, Annual Statistical Report 1989 at p 42.

5 Ibid, at p 17.

6 J. Pritchard, The Legal 500 (1989) at p 494.

7 The Lawyer, 12 December 1989 at p 1.

8 Law Society, Report of Special Committee on Remuneration (1986) Vol 2, Table 22. Google Scholar

9 Law Society, note 4 above at p 33.

10 Ibid, at pp 17, 20–21.

11 Law Society, note 7 above at Tables 22, 24, 27.

12 38th Legal Aid Annual Reports (1987–88) at pp 69–70.

13 Law Society, note 4 above at pp 8, 10, 37, 40–41.

14 Legal Services: A Framework for the Future (Cm 740, 1989) at pp 37–38.

15 M. Murphy, ‘Legal Aid Eligibility’ (October 1989) Legal Action 7.

16 R. Abel, ‘The Decline of Professionalism’ (1986) 49 MLR 1 at p 41. For a more recent assessment by the same author, see R. Abel, ‘Between Market and State: The Legal Profession in Turmoil’ (1989) 52 MLR 285.

17 H. Perkin, The Rise of Professional Society (1989) at pp 518–519.