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SATURDAY, DECMEBER 16, 1989
"THIS WORK IS PRINCIPALLY CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LITIGATION.
ARE SOUND PUBLIC INTEREST REASONS WHY SOME UNDERTAKEN BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
THERE
OF THIS WORK SHOULD LE
"IT ASSISTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BAR IF ITS HAVE EXPERIENCE OF GOVERNMENT LEGAL WORK.
PRACTITIONERS
"IT
PROMOTES
A
SENSE
OF BALANCE
AND
PROVIDES
NECESSARY
EXPERIENCES FOR THOSE FROM WHOM OUR JUDGES WILL BE DRAWN.
THE "AND AT A TIME WHEN THERE ARE CONSTRAINTS ON THE GROWTH OF
OF VOLUME
PROSECUTION NAS TO BE CIVIL SERVICE, A RELATIVELY HIGH CARRIED OUT BY THE BAR," MR MATHEWS SAID.
MR MATHEWS NOTED THAT HE WAS NOT IN FAVOUR OF ALL FORENSIC WORK BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
THE CROWN'S
CHAMBERS ΤΟ
I BELIEVE IT TO BE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOR MY RETAIN A CAPACITY TO UNDERTAKE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL ADVOCACY.
DIRECTOR OF "FIRST. IT IS DESIRABLE THAT THOSE COUNSEL IN THE
ARE WHO
REQUIRED TO MAKE PROSECUTION PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS' OFFICE
OF THE CRIMINAL DECISIONS ARE THEMSELVES EXPERIENCED IN ALL ASPECTS LAW AND ITS PROCESSES.
IN
"SECONDLY, AS EXPERIENCE WITH THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE
PROSECUTORS ARE SEVERELY ENGLAND HAS SHOWN, MORALE SUFFERS IF CROWN RESTRICTED IN THE CONDUCT OF ADVOCACY.
"THIRDLY,
THE
OPPORTUNITY
TO
GO
TO
COURT
PROVIDES
AN
ATTRACTION TO ABLE LAWYERS TO JOIN CHAMBERS.
IN THE "FOURTHLY, ADVOCACY TRAINING IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT
LARGE NUMBERS OF YOUNG PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WHICH WE OFFER THE
MR MATHEWS SAID, LOCAL LAWYERS WHO ARE IN CHAMBERS,
BY
ON LOCALISATION, HE SAID IT WAS AIMED THAT 50 PER CENT SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL POSTS WOULD BE FILLED BY LOCAL LAWYERS ALREADY 52 OUT OF 124 SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL POSTS WERE FILLED BY LAWYERS.
OF THE 1992.
LOCAL
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