Note of Chapter 3: Legal professionals from exam perspective. (cursory notes)
Chapter 3: Legal professionals
a) Solicitors
- By 2018, 143198 solicitors.
- Lawyers in the UK jurisdiction generally practice as solicitors in private firms as legal advisors.
- They can do advocacy, draft legal documents and give written advice, but cannot appear in every court like barristers.
- Solicitors normally form partnerships with other solicitors and work in office.
- Qualification – regulated by the law society
b) Barristers
- Act as sole traders and unlimited liability
- Cannot form partnership
- Main work is to provide representation in the courts
- Represent client at court, help them with court procedures
- Referred as counsel to draft documents of courts.
- Training and qualification.
- A qualifying law degree (LLB)
- Sresta pathsala
- Nepal law campus 1954 A.D
- Pradhan nyayalaya act 2008 B.S
- Supreme Court act 2013 B.S
- Government case act
c) Working lives
- Working lives may be known as workers life, where in field of law, for instance lawyers, advocates judges, legal officer, etc.
d) Judges
e) A law firms' structure and practice
- Personnel: includes partners, solicitors, other lawyers, staff, legal executives, trainee solicitors
- Structure: areas commercial; company, private client
- Services: all services as client requires
- Expertise and structure
- Commitment (to anticipating client needs and meet them
- Informational tendency (database monitor workloads)
Nepal judges
Tiers of court: Supreme, High, District, Judicial bodies
Constitution of Nepal article 129, 140, 149.
