split profession

I’m all for having a split profession.

It also upheld the idea of a split profession (one with both solicitors and barristers, in contrast to a fused profession), saying that:

In the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, there is a split profession.

Hunt is a one-profession man: in the face of doom mongers who envisage an increasingly split profession, Hunt believes now is the chance to re-cast old principles.

Issue Splits Profession Other practitioners, like Dr. Kenneth Treitel, a dentist in the Bronx who said his patients have remained calm, said he did not know if his practice would survive unscathed.

In Quebec, however, like America and modern France, there is no tradition of split professions, though a distinction is sometimes made between an avocat plaidant "trial lawyer" and an avocat-conseil or conseiller juridique "legal consultant".

The legal profession in the United States is fused; however, an individual licensed to practise law is often formally referred to as an "Attorney and Counselor at Law", a reference back to the days of the split profession, although the terms barrister and solicitor are not typically used.

The report did not go as far as some reformers desired; it ruled out the possibility of partnerships between barristers, upheld the idea that a split profession (one with both solicitors and barristers, in contrast to a fused profession) and also rejected the suggestion to allow solicitors rights of audience in the High Court.