The origins of the English legal profession
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0631154019
ISBN 13
9780631154013
LCCN
KD 630 .B73
DDC
349.42
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
ix, 236 pages
Subject
Origins of professional law
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Abstract
Brand shows how changes in the organization and structure of the courts and the ways in which litigation was conducted in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries contributed to the emergence of professional lawyers and eventually of a recognizable legal profession. Brand draws on research on the plea roles and law reports to provide a detailed picture of the legal profession during the first phase of its existence, the reign of Edward I. He estimates the size of the profession and looks at the functions that lawyers provided for their clients. He also examines the arrangements made for the training of legal practitioners and for controlling entry into the profession and the development and enforcement of a code of professional ethics for legal practitioners. The book concludes with a comparison between the new profession serving the common law courts and its counterpart which served the English Church courts, the canon lawyers. - from Amazon
Description
Contents:
1. Anglo-Norman England: a Land without Lawyers -- 2. Creating a Demand for Lawyers: the Transformation of the English Court System, 1154-1307 -- 3. Creating a Demand for Lawyers: Changes in the Process of Litigation and in the Rules Governing the Use of Legal Representatives, 1154-1307 -- 4. From Proto-professional to Professional: the Emergence of the Professional Lawyer in England, 1199-1272 -- 5. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (I): the Size of the Profession -- 6. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (II): the Profession at Work -- 7. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (III): Training and Entry into the Profession -- 8. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (IV): Regulation -- 9. The Other Legal Profession: Canon Lawyers in England before 1307.
1. Anglo-Norman England: a Land without Lawyers -- 2. Creating a Demand for Lawyers: the Transformation of the English Court System, 1154-1307 -- 3. Creating a Demand for Lawyers: Changes in the Process of Litigation and in the Rules Governing the Use of Legal Representatives, 1154-1307 -- 4. From Proto-professional to Professional: the Emergence of the Professional Lawyer in England, 1199-1272 -- 5. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (I): the Size of the Profession -- 6. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (II): the Profession at Work -- 7. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (III): Training and Entry into the Profession -- 8. The English Legal Profession in Edward I's Reign (IV): Regulation -- 9. The Other Legal Profession: Canon Lawyers in England before 1307.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
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1
