Law Association acting with undue haste
THE EDITOR: The Law Association is acting with undue haste after waiting for a period of 20 years to prepare rules for attorneys-at-law regarding the compensation fund and professional accounts. It should be appreciated if you would publish this letter so that attorneys-at-law would be apprised of the request to the council of the Law Association to have the period of time extended. Following my letter of December 9, 2005 I have noticed an advertisement that further rules are intended to take effect as from December 15, 2005 with a request for attorneys to submit their comments by December 2005. This notice is most certainly an absurdity. The haste with which you are endeavouring to impose the proposed rules on the general membership demonstrates a contemptuous regard for us and once more you are urged to give the general membership a longer period of time to consider the proposed rules and submit their comments/views. It appears as if you have just conceived the thought of filling your obligation under the act and are requiring the general membership to address the matter in similar haste. Please indicate what you propose to do to rectify this situation regarding the two (2) sets of rules as I propose to publicise all my concerns which I am sure would be shared with the majority of the general membership. It also appears that you need to be reminded that the Legal Profession Act, 1986 required a two-thirds majority to be passed by parliament. This alone is indicative of the serious impact which it was to have on the existing solicitors and barristers. The Act intruded on our profession in a way that the law has not intruded on other professions and anything you look to do under its purview has to be considered with much seriousness and deliberation and not in haste. JOANNA C KOORN Port-of-Spain
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