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CoL: modified LPC should replace training contract

"We only call people who finish the BVC barristers as the vast majority of them will never practise as barristers, so its nice to give them a tiny consolation prize for having forked out so much money in vain." Why don't we call LPC graduates solicitors as a consolation prize for their hard work and the money spent? Is it not true to say that to qualify as a barrister you have to pay for you law degree/CPE/GDL and BVC? Exactly the same applies to those who wish to qualify as a solicitor with a difference of LPC instead of BVC. On completion of their BVC so called 'barristers' still have to go through the final stage of training - pupillage, LPC graduates are in a similar position. So why should not they be called solicitors, having done the same amount of work as those who choose to be a barrister. It would only be fair. Whether they will ever practise or not is irrelevant.

28-Sep-2009

7:42 pm