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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 4, No. 9. July 30, 1941

Obstacles

Obstacles.

The first is that more time for study is a Prerequisite. Most law student's work in offices during the day, and it is this factor which has shaped the lecture system in the past. At least six hours a week would have to be taken from working time. There is every reason to suppose that in normal conditions the profession as a whole would view such a request with tolerance, if not benignity, but with the shortage of law clerks caused by the war it would be perhaps too much to ask of employers at the present time.

The second obstacle is the examination system. The adoption of a new method of tuition in any one College might well place its students at a disadvantage with an outside examiner who demands the type of canned law taught elsewhere. Considerable progress has been made in overcoming this, and individual professors now have a fair degree of control over the field and marking of papers for external examinations.