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The Trouble with Lawyers
Author(s) -
Wilson Paul R.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1972.tb00494.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , legal service , legal profession , law , political science , sociology
The Australian legal system and lawyers as a professional group are critically examined in three main areas: excessively high legal costs in certain areas; failure to provide legal services within the reach of the poorer sections of the community; and failure to become involved and to press for reform on important sociological and socio‐legal matters.