Legal Ethics Abroad (5/31/05)

The proposed re-structuring of the UK legal profession, based on the Clementi Report, has prompted the Law Society to think of ways to maintain its traditional role as the leading institution of the bar.    . . . .    South Africa's Constitutional Court Judge Dikgang Moseneke is calling upon the government to send more legal work to young black lawyers, as a means of developing a corps of experienced black lawyers.    . . . .     Scottish lawyer Gordon Manson, who defrauded several clients out of millions, may have his sentence reduced in recognition of his efforts to pay back the defrauded parties.    . . . .     What is the political fall-out in New Delhi, India when Arun Jaitley, a politician with a private law practice, undertakes to defend a stock broker accused of facilitating a bank failure?    . . . .    The UK Army's prosecution unit will be dissolved, as the UK seeks a better system for investigating and prosecuting alleged abuse of military detainees.