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By further Royal Charter in 1903 the name of the Society was changed to simply "The Law Society". The Society first admitted women members in 1922. [2] In 1949, the Law Society was given the responsibility of legal aid by the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949. [3] The function was passed to the Legal Aid Board by Legal Aid Act 1988.
She became the society's vice president in 2020, and its president in March 2021. [6] In May 2021 Boyce said that Priti Patel's plans to penalise asylum seekers who arrived in the United Kingdom by "so-called irregular routes" risked a "two-tier asylum system" in breach of international law and the Refugee Convention. [7]
Pages in category "Presidents of the Law Society of England and Wales" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Thio Shen Yi SC is a Singaporean lawyer who is a managing partner of the TSMP Law Corporation, alongside his wife Stefanie Yuen-Thio. He served as the president of the Law Society of Singapore in 2015 and 2016.
Adrian Tan Gim Hai (4 February 1966 – 8 July 2023) was a Singaporean lawyer and author. Known for writing the Teenage Textbook series of books in the 1980s, he was the 27th president of the Law Society of Singapore and a partner at TSMP Law Corporation.
On 13 September 2020, Pheona Wall was elected as the new president for Uganda Law Society replacing Simon Peter Kinobe. [5] Pheona Wall won with 441 votes. [6] In March 2016, Pheona was elected Honorary Secretary Uganda Law Society where she worked on governance reforms until 2018 when she was elected vice president and Chairperson of the Legal Aid and Pro Bono Project of the Uganda Law ...
The Law Society of Ireland was established on 24 June 1830 with premises at Inns Quay, Dublin. In November 1830, the committee of the Society submitted a memorial to the benchers as to the ‘necessity and propriety’ of erecting chambers for the use of solicitors with the funds that solicitors had been levied to pay to King's Inns over the years. [8]
From 2008 to 2010, he was the President of the Law Society of Singapore. [2] In 2010, he became the Chief Justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts . In 2014, he was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal by the International Olympic Committee for his work with the International Council of Arbitration for Sports, which operates ...