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Solicitors and Barristers

In the English legal system a practicing lawyer must help one of two professions: he must either practice as a solicitor or have been called to the Bar as a barrister.

A barrister is to have an accepted educational standard, to have passed the legal examinations conducted by the Council of Legal Edu­cation and to have become a member of the Inns of Court. Most barris­ters are professional advocates earning their living by the presentation of civil and criminal cases in court. They become specialists at advo­cacy. Professionally acting barristers are known as «counsels». They may be appointed Queen's Counsels.

A prospective solicitor must be a qualified lawyer. The solicitor can be an advocate in the inferior courts bur he is more familiar to the public in his role as a general legal adviser. He may become the member of the Law Society.

A significant difference between the two professions is that mem­bers of the public are to call at a solicitor's office and seek his evidence in a personal interview: whereas a barrister can only be consulted indi­rectly through a solicitor. It can be sees that there is a possible analogy in these circumstances to the medical profession, with the solicitor as a general practitioner and the barrister as a consultant. The analogy must not be taken too far, however, since the legal knowledge of the newly qualified barrister is not to be compared with that of the senior partners of a firm of solicitors, whose legal experience may extend over many years and cover different fields of law. In many instances too the solici­tor is more of a specialist than the barrister, particularly where the latter is ah advocate with a common law practice.

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In what role are solicitors more familiar to the public?

1.... as a professional advocate.

2.... as a general legal adviser.

3.... as a Queen's Council

Вариант 3

I. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните Participle I, II: установите функции каждого из них,

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