British study abroad lawyer's license

There are two kinds of lawyers in Britain: junior lawyers and senior lawyers. Their training mode, career path and practice office are also separated.

Lawyers studying in Britain must go through three stages: legal education, legal practice education and internship in law firms.

In the first stage, the requirements for two kinds of lawyers are the same, and in the latter two stages, the requirements are different because of their different professional orientation.

Requirements for the first stage: Students will obtain a Bachelor of Laws (ll) in the UK. B, three-year system); If you are studying other subjects, you need to take a PgDL law postgraduate course to supplement the basic knowledge of English law.

PgDL contains seven compulsory courses: Constitution and Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Equity and Trust Law, Tort Law, Contract Law, Land Law and EU Law. These courses compress the core courses in the undergraduate degree of law into one year.

The second stage is to complete the LPC course (one-year program) and study commercial law, civil criminal procedure law, document writing, lawyer's professional ethics and so on. , very practical; At this stage, the corresponding course for barristers is BVC(BarVocationalCourse), which focuses on learning logic, debating skills and improving legal research ability.

The third stage is to complete a two-year training contract in a law firm (it takes one year to become a barrister). In the past two years, we have to change jobs every six months and do four jobs, including at least three completely unrelated fields.

Each position has a partner or senior lawyer to directly guide your work. If you are in a large-scale firm, you will have the opportunity to get in touch with completely different fields of business in the past two years. These two years are paid internships.

After successfully completing the above three stages in turn, you will be accepted as a full member of the LawSociety or BarCouncil and become a registered lawyer or barrister.

Lawyer:

Lawyers who can directly accept the entrustment of clients, mainly engage in various non-litigation businesses and participate in legal services in the form of partnership. The scope of activities of junior lawyers far exceeds that of trial lawyers.

Traditional junior lawyers can provide almost all other legal services, except for not appearing in court above the High Court. He can meet customers directly, such as vegetable vendors, company directors, immigrant customers, companies and enterprises.

When the client's problem needs to appear in court, or involves some special professional fields, such as cross-border taxation, newly promulgated legislation, etc., the lawyer will go to the trial lawyer.

Trial lawyer:

A lawyer who is entrusted by a barrister to appear in court above the British High Court or to provide special legal advice to a barrister.

A barrister is generally an expert who is proficient in a certain law or a certain type of case. They not only provide legal services for clients through defense, but also answer difficult questions raised by lawyers.

In Britain, trial lawyers have no personal position, but are just "tools". Lawyers in China can say "I think" when giving legal opinions in China courts, but in Britain they can only say "I submit to the court" (Isubmit… or my submission is …).