This report looks at how Seychelles has moved to online legal education and where improvements need to be made. The legal profession is integrated without distinction between lawyers and lawyers. However, the number of lawyers is worrying at 0.5 lawyers per 1000 people. Within the framework of legal education, gaps arise when there is no Seychellois LLB degree, a professional bar course with a weak online presence and CLE does not exist. Despite this, the transition to online legal education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at university has been very good. Measures such as internet permission were introduced during and after the lockdown. Online teaching is widespread within the university, even if there are no lockdown measures. Nevertheless, the cost of the internet remains a challenge that threatens the sustainability of online legal education. [Act 4 of 1991; Act 4 of 1994; Act No. 13 of 1995; Act No. 17 of 1996; Act 18 of 2013]Part I – Preliminary Note 1.
Short title and start This Act may be referred to as the Legal Practitioners Act.2. Admission of a lawyer (1) The Supreme Court may, in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Chief Justice, admit as counsel a person entitled to be admitted as a lawyer under this Act. (2) If the Supreme Court refuses to admit a person to the bar, the Supreme Court shall, if the applicant so requests, state the reasons for the refusal. (3) If the Supreme Court has rejected an application for admission to the bar, it shall not consider any other application for admission by the same person within 12 months after the application is rejected.4. List of lawyers The Registrar shall (a)keep a list of all lawyers admitted to practise before the Supreme Court;(b)when the Supreme Court decides on the admission of a person to the Bar, it shall enter the name and other required information of that person on the list;(c)issue a certificate under the seal of the Supreme Court to the person admitted to the Bar; certify the admission and registration of the person as a lawyer.5.
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