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arranging and settling the details of the several measures which may be deemed necessary to be adopted for those purposes, or in relation thereto, and such other matters as are herein in that behalf mentioned.
The Committee of Education or Board of Studies.
24. The Council shall appoint a Committee of the Members of the Council, or, if deemed expedient, a Board of Studies consisting of Members of the Council and of the Teaching Staff. The constitution of such Committee or Board, and the period for which its Members shall hold office, shall be from time to time determined by the Council.
25. The Committee or Board shall, subject to the control of the Council, superintend and direct the Education and Examination of Students, and all matters of detail in respect to such Education and Examination.
Lectures and Classes.
27. Students shall be provided with the means of Education in the general principles of Law, and in the Law as practically administered in this country, and for the purpose of such Education, Systematic Instruction shall be given in the following subjects:-
28. The subjects for instruction shall be---
1. Roman Law and Jurisprudence and International Law, Public and Private (Conflict of Laws).
2. Constitutional Law (English and Colonial) and Legal History.
3. English Law and Equity, viz.:-
(a) Law of Persons, including
Marriage and Divorce.
Infancy.
Lunacy.
Corporations,
(b) Law of Real and Personal Property and Conveyancing, including:-
Trusts; Mortgages.
Administration of Assets on Death; on Dissolution of Partnerships;
on Winding-up of Companies, and in Bankruptcy. Practical instruction in the preparation of Deeds, Wills, and
Contracts.
(c) Law of Obligations.
Contracts.
Torts.
Allied Subjects (implied or quasi contracts), estoppel, &c. Commercial Law, with especial reference to Mercantile Documents in
daily use, which should be shown and explained.
(d) Civil Procedure, including evidence.
(e) Criminal Law and Procedure.
Staff of Teachers and Mode of Teaching.
29. There shall be a permanent staff of such a number of Readers, not more than eight,
as the Council may think expedient; and such Readers shall give instruction both catechetically and by lectures, in such subjects as shall be directed by the Council,
30. In addition to the Readers there shall be a permanent staff of Assistant Readers for Elementary Classes, but the number of such Assistant Readers and Elementary Classes shall be left to the Council.
31. In addition to the staff of Readers and Assistant Readers the Council shall also have power to engage the services of Lecturers on particular subjects, whether enumerated above or not, as they may think fit.
32. Both Lectures and Classes shall be held throughout the entire year, except during the Legal Vacations, at such place or places as the Council may appoint, but so as not to unduly prefer one Inn to another.
Tenure of Offices.
33. Each Reader shall be appointed for three years, and shall be re-eligible, but he shall be removable during his term of office by the vote of not less than ten Members of the Council.
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34. The period for which Assistant Readers shall be appointed and the conditions of their tenure of office, shall be left to the discretion of the Council.
35. To secure systematic instruction, the Scheme of the Lectures to be given by each Reader and Assistant Reader shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Committee or Board of Studies, at such times and in such manner as the Committee or Board shall direct.
36. Students, in addition to availing themselves of the means of instruction provided by these Regulations, are recommended to attend in the Chambers of a Barrister or Pleader for the purpose of studying the practice of the Law; but such attendance shall not be compulsory.
Salaries and Payments.
37. A system of payment by capitation fees is recommended for adoption by the Council if practicable.
38. The sum of £500 per annum, and such capitation fees as the Council may decide, shall be paid to each of the Readers.
39. The remuneration of the Assistant Readers and Lecturers on particular subjects shall be left to the discretion of the Council.
40. Each Student shall pay on admission a sum of Five Guineas, which shall entitle him to attend all the Lectures and Classes of all the Readers and Assistant Readers, so long as he shall be a Student. The Council shall have power to require payment of additional fees for attendance at the Lectures of Lecturers on particular subjects appointed under Regulation 31.
The Examinations for Call to the Bar.
41. There shall be four examinations for Calls to the Bar in each year--one before each Term, and in sufficient time to enable the requisite Certificates to be granted by the Council before the first day of each Term.
42. An Examination in Roman Law and in such of the Heads of the English Law and Equity mentioned in Rule 28 (3), as the Council shall from time to time determine, shall be obligatory for Call to the Bar.
43. No Student, except such as come under Rule 14, shall be examined for Call to the Bar until he shall have kept nine Terms; but Students shall have the option of passing the Examination in Roman Law, required by Rule 42, at any time after having kept four Terms.
44. The Council may accept as an equivalent for the Examination in Roman Law-
i. A Degree granted by any University within the British Dominions, for which
the qualifying Examination included Roman Law;
ii. A Certificate that any Student has passed any such Examination, though he may not have taken the Degree for which such Examination qualifies him; and
iii. The Testamur of the Public Examiners for the Degree of Civil Law at Oxford that the Student has passed the necessary Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law;
Provided the Council is satisfied that the Student, before he obtained his Degree, or obtained such Certificate or Testamur, passed a sufficient Examination in Roman Law.
45. There shall be a Board of three Examiners in each subject, viz., a Reader, with such Assistants selected by the Council, not being members of the Staff of Readers and Assistant Readers, as the Council may determine.
46. Examination for Call to the Bar shall be by written papers, and by such vivâ voce questions (if any) as the Examiners may think desirable.
47. Each Examiner shall be appointed for three years, subject to removal by the Council; but no Examiner, other than a Reader, shall be re-eligible until he has been at least one year out of office.
48. The Council shall have power to appoint such Assistant Examiners as may be necessary, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Council,
49. The fee to be paid to each Examiner and Assistant Examiner shall be left to the discretion of the Council.