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Article: Lawyers lock horns over governance change
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- April 22, 2007
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THE COUNTRY'S 10,000 lawyers are embroiled in a debate about
scrapping New Zealand's 14 district law societies in favour of a
single, nationwide professional body.
Behind the proposal are changes to be introduced in July next year
as part of the Lawyers & Conveyancers Act. When the legislation comes
into effect, district law societies will lose their statutory status.
At the same time, law society membership becomes voluntary and the
national body, the New Zealand Law Society, becomes the regulator of
the profession.
At the centre of the rationalisation debate are the district law
societies' considerable assets and how they might be transferred to
the NZLS if members vote for change.
The ...