The Bar Council' responded to this invitation by appointing a special committee to confer with the representatives of the Law Society, There the matter stands, Existing regulations governing the "change-dyer" are not regarded as severe. In the first place the barrister or solicitor contemplating 'a change must have been in practice for at least five years, The solicitor may then become a barrister, or a barrister join the list of solicitors by passing the respective final examinations, solicitors' final examination is acknowledged to be a stiffer test than that imposed on those who desire to be called to the Bar. It does not, however, follow that this is the reason why more solicitors become barristers than barristers become solicitors. Statistics how that in some five years 29 barristers made the change and not fewer than 50 solicitors.
Barristers who are not wholly enamoured of the proposal, say that solicitors who are called to the Bar start with an advantage over the barrister who is struggling for a living, and for that reason their passaire into the other branch of the profession ought not to be facilitated.
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