Sentences with phrase «abolish law societies»

We must either abolish our law societies, or change their management structure so that they do have a permanent civil service — only one for all societies in Canada.

The best thing for all of us and all victims of the problem would be to abolish law societies.

Abolish law societies or force them to change because you don't want to serve out the rest of your legal career in a severely financially - depressed legal profession.

So: threaten law societies that if they don't get competent to solve the problem of unaffordable legal services, then we must petition government to abolish law societies which would be the best thing that could be done for the population, the justice system, and the legal profession itself.

Not exact matches

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

In terms of societal values and tort law, it's interesting that states had abolished those torts while most people in society still claim that marriage and family is important and should be protected.

It provides a solution to the unaffordable legal services problem in Canada («the problem»), so as to: (1) maintain law society management structures as they are; (2) fulfilling their duties in law to make legal services adequately available; and thus, (3) law societies can avoid being abolished.

Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada Paul Schabas even joked with me about my last column — which was extremely gracious of him, as I had been more than a little pointed in my criticism of the LSUC's recommendation (since reversed) to abolish the Legal Practice Program.

So, change the structure of law society management, or abolish them.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is looking at options to address the increasing shortage of articling placements, including abolishing the articling requirement.

Law societies are fated to either be: (1) abolished because of their refusal to try to solve the problem of affordability; or, (2) greatly diminished in purpose, power, and prestige by the commercial production legal services.

Therefore, law societies must either be abolished and their regulatory powers transferred to an agency that is more responsive to the democratic process, or change their management structures.

As long as benchers do nothing to resolve that conflict of interest, law societies have to be abolished and replaced with permanent institutions that are much more responsive to public need and to the political system that makes possible our law - based democracy.