Regulating Legal Competence
Canadian Business Law Journal, Vol. 34, p. 444, 2001
24 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2008
Date Written: January 1, 2001
Abstract
As the Law Society of Upper Canada's Special Committee on Professional Competence stated in 1978: "Possibly no aspect of the practice of law or for that matter of other professions such as medicine and accounting is of more immediate importance or raises more difficult questions than that of maintaining the competence of the practitioner." I believe that that statement was true then, and remains true today. In this article, I will briefly review a range of regulatory instruments that are available and widely invoked as means of providing quality assurances in the legal and other professions.
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