Иностранный язык. Леденева Т.В - 48 стр.

                          The traditional picture of the English lawyer is that the solicitor is the
                      general practitioner, confined mainly to the office. The solicitor is the legal
                      adviser of the public. Members of the public are able to call at a solicitor's
                      office and seek his advice in a personal interview. The barrister is the
                      specialist adviser much of whose time is taken up with court-room ap-
                      pearance. A barrister can only be consulted indirectly through a solicitor.
                      Today however the lines of demarcation are blurred. There is approxi-
                      mately one solicitor to every 1300 of the population, with considerable
                      regional and local variations. There is a heavy concentration in commer-
                      cial centres.
                          The ratio for barristers is about one per every 10,000. Taking the legal
                      profession as a whole (38,500), there is one practicing lawyer per 1200 people.
                      But a lot of work in English solicitor's offices is undertaken by managing clerks,
                      now called "legal executives" who are the third type of lawyers.
                          Thus, solicitors make up the largest brunch of the legal profession in
                      England. They are found in every town, where they deal with all the day-
                      to-day work of preparing legal documents for buying and selling houses,
                      making wills etc. Solicitors also work on court cases for their clients, pre-
                      pare cases for barristers to present in the higher courts. Barristers defend
                      or prosecute in the higher courts.
                          Although solicitors and barristers work together on cases, barristers
                      specialize in representing clients in court and the training and career struc-
                      tures for the two types of lawyers are quite separate. In court, barristers
                      wear wigs and gowns in keeping with the extreme formality of the pro-
                      ceedings. There are a few hundred judges, trained as barristers, who pre-
                      side in more serious cases. There is no separate training for judges.




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