ABSTRACT

In England and Wales, the legal profession is di vided irrte two cornpletely separate b ranches, those of barristers and solici tors, which have developed in entirely d ifferent ways. Collecttvely, they and legal academics are known as lawyers.

Generally The man in the street seek ing legal advice would flrstly need 10 sec a solicitor, whose name coul d be supplied from the yellow pages of the telephone d trectory, or the lisls kept at Citizens Advice Bureaux.