Self-Regulation in the Legal Profession: Funnel In, Funnel Out, or Funnel Away?.

Abstract

Abstract Self-regulation in the legal profession has recently, as it has on previous occasions, come under a barrage of criticism. This paper examines a narrow aspect of self-regulation, the processing of complaints through to dispositions within the disciplinary system of the Law Society of British Columbia between 1978-1988. Statistics and case reports of the Law Society are used to examine the disciplining of lawyers in light of a model which encompasses the benefits of self-regulation (funnel in) and criticism of it (funnel out and funnel away). While suggestions are made for improving the present system there is some question as to whether self-regulation will survive the rapidly changing nature of the legal profession as it bends to national and international pressures.

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