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Decision‐Making for Life Apart
Author(s) -
Roberts Simon
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
the modern law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-2230
pISSN - 0026-7961
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2230.1995.tb02045.x
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , port (circuit theory) , reflexive pronoun , law , sociology , management , history , political science , epistemology , economics , philosophy , engineering , electrical engineering , geometry , mathematics
… he (the layman) can understand the basic character of the English way of legal thinking, he can identify himself with it and, above all, can make his peace with it by retaining once and for all a solicitor as his legal father confessor for all contingencies of life (Max Weber, Economy and Society , 1922 1 ). The tendency in England and Wales is to use a solicitor's office as the automatic first port of call without first becoming aware of the range of services and the range of options which are available to separating and divorcing couples ( Looking to the Future , 1995, para 7.3).