@zalfir well here in canada before the legalisation most provinces didn’t care really. In B.C. when I first landed here for my working holiday dispensary’s would sell it to you if you said you had a bad back or whatever and cops would walk past you if you were smoking it.

@Endecros How much practical solicitors experience do you need to go it on your own, or do you just need the degree?

Or is practical training given within the degree kind of how medicine is?

plus the fact that becoming a barrister is fuckin insanely hard

we get practical experience within the degree itself, and that counts as kinda like work experience

That's why barristers are always 40+ sometimes, right?

atm we do SLP which is simulated legal practice but in 3rd year its all about working with real people

edit: in Australia) most of the time that i've seen people bothered by the cops for ganja, they've told them to just tip it out on the ground, they'll literally just destroy the stuff instead of arrest them

Aye, the degree and BPTC is easy enough, getting a pupillage takes like 2 years to be accepted for one if its not too competitive

unless they're driving, driving+stoned = arrest

yeah its ridiculous, even like straight 1st student isnt nearly enough of a guarantee and im nowhere near that. the 6 fig earnings are good if you can figuratively in bed with the clerk

get one that gives you the good jobs

@Endecros Is SLP just scenarios with other training solicitors?

Sorry for asking loads of questions, just interesting.

its just what legal practice would be like, only the people are made up, one of our lecturers is an ex-solicitor but not all of em are

so yea basically

Ahh, I see.

That’s why I’m trying to get into Cambridge (unlikely) but if i can then it might make it easier to get a pupillage since ill have some metaphorical clout trying to get onto a commercial law pupillage

Good morning, and what is slp Sorry for not knowing

@Octavia Morning Octavia mate

Simulated Legal Practice

Morning Octavia.

Hi octavia

Ah thank you 😊

also g'morning

How's Octavia this morning then?

I'll square go you at men of war

and

win

Did Soup Dad no take you to the cleaners, Whiskers

Oh I'm good, just waking up. Enjoying this legal talk but was just a little lost

haha, im also kinda shit at explaining it, plus im only in 2nd year so theres still tonnes i'v not been told

I enjoy it too. Never knew Endo was doing it.

So awesome.

What do you do @Tea?

Yeah I had no idea and think it's interesting, especially since I have little knowledge in that field

another thing to mention is that what i know is only relevant to england and wales, NI and scotland have their own that i'd only be able to persuasively inform on not legally, same with the US and CA, and i think AUS as well

@Endecros pretty sure Scotland have the same court system just a few of their own laws right?

they have differing courts, and some other stuff, like for example markus went to a sherrif court for his trial but we dont have em here, it seems to just be a mag's court but perhaps with differing powers and a judge instead of 3 or more magistrates

i might be wrong on what i said earlier too, because i think we use case law from scotland thats legally authoritative, like one from Lanarkshire Health Board v (somethin i cant remember atm)

Oh shit, good thing i only need to know English law