Mental Health and Wellness in the Legal Profession is a self - directed educational tool that has its roots in a 2013 survey of Canadian lawyers that suggested mental health was a far bigger
concern than the profession's traditional alcohol and addiction issues.
Not exact matches
Among the many references to his friendship with the ill - reputed tax - gatherers there is one only which tells us something about the individual
concerned — Zacchaeus, the wealthy inspector of taxes at Jericho, an enterprising little man who was perhaps no better and no worse
than the average of his
profession.
The ways teacher dissatisfaction is captured, like in the IES staffing surveys, is mostly from a self - interested position, rather
than giving them the space to express
concern for students or about being stewards of the
profession.
Massive teacher layoffs have led to
concerns that young people will shy away from entering the suddenly less -
than - secure
profession.
If there is a reason for the complainant to have
concerns,
than it becomes my concern.If I stop going
than I do not need to be in this
profession.
To be honest, I feel after the Agent Orange Ranch Hand Study, and the Slutz and Nutz Implant Study, they have cast a dark shadow over their
profession of being anything other
than traveling professional witnesses for corporate hire with a lack of moral
concern to their obligation of science and truth.
Whether those changes are seen as progress by the
profession, however, or as measures taken to meet targets with less
concern for discovering the truth of complaints
than for closing the file, remains to be seen.
Unfortunately, most law schools are more
concerned with the bottom line
than improving our
profession.
So much for evidence based policy — and another sure sign that the
profession has been more responsive to practitioners»
concerns than those of the general public.
I'm not saying the legal
profession deserves all these good people — I voiced my
concern more
than five years ago that the
profession has squandered its inheritance in this respect — but we need them all the same.
For example, the B.C. Health
Professions Act stipulates that while a Registration Committee can impose limits or conditions (or refuse to grant registration) where an applicant has committed an indictable offence (i.e., something more serious
than a summary conviction offence), the Registration Committee must be «satisfied that the nature of the offence or the circumstances under which it was committed give rise to
concerns about the person's competence or fitness to practise the designated health
profession.»
When asked how the new budgeting regime was working, more
than half said it depended which judge they were before — reflecting wider
concern in the legal
profession that judicial inconsistency is undermining the regime.
Rather
than guarding a recreational fighting ring however, the legal
profession chooses to
concern itself with protecting the communications of clients and their lawyers.
While consumers have expressed
concern that the OLC will be little more
than the current complaints handling system for solicitors re-branded, it is the cost of the new system which is particularly troubling, since ultimately it is likely to be passed on to the
profession's clients.
Lord Brown held (arguably going further
than Lord Lane CJ): «That the criminal standard of proof is the correct standard to be applied in all disciplinary proceedings
concerning the legal
profession, their Lordships entertain no doubt.»