ABSTRACT
In America there is a fused legal profession. Instead of solicitors and barristers, they have Attorneys-at-Law who serve both functions. Any practising lawyer knows how keenly the parties to a boundary dispute feel about the matter, and how each runs off in search of legal advice. A country also needs a sufficient number of lawyers. These lawyers must know the law, know the practice of the law, be scrupulously honest, understand people, and be independent and fearless where their duty to their clients is concerned. The solicitor, then, has to have a wide knowledge of law, of the way the law works, and of people. In Northern Rhodesia there was one African who had passed the English Bar examinations but had not succeeded in passing an examination that the Northern Rhodesia Law Society insists upon people passing before they can practise in Northern Rhodesia.
