Bar admission policy

[Lüc]

So an issue that has surfaced recently involves the Royal Talossan Bar and the practice of law in Talossa. I think it would be sensible to come up with an official position to put on the Manifesto. Relevant Witt thread here: link

[Ian Plätschisch]

Getting rid of the bar exam and the law course, at least until there are enough people to write a bar exam and teach the law courses, is really the only way to get more people certified to practice law. I have been interested in getting a law license since the week that I immigrated, and here I still am more than 18 months later with no progress.

That said, I like the apprentice idea, and obviously prospective lawyers should read all of the law; perhaps there is a way the mentor could make sure that happens

[Lüc]

Can't the bar exam be retained if we make sure it's entirely automated? Yes it would probably be open book, but that in itself is a guarantee that the prospective barrister has indeed read the laws.

I'd very much like that to happen. Automated exam + half-year apprenticeship, no law course required. And Epic might want to put in our manifesto the need for a more transparent Bar.

[Ian Plätschisch]

A fully automated bar would be fine, but no one has had time to write a new bar for almost two years, and I don't think that is very likely to change.

[Lüc]

We could put in the Manifesto that the A-G should have one single main issue to tackle in the upcoming term, which is to write a new exam together with the RTB and make it operative by, say, mid-2017.

(Just like other ministries could be set to be single-issue jobs for the next term: MinFin should deliver the coins, MinStuff should deliver Telecomuna, and so on. But those will be discussed elsewhere.)