Universities criticised for offering too many law places

Universities have been partly behind 'a huge expansion of LLB graduates' and growth 'at a hideous rate', according to the director of Legal Best Practice at the New Zealand Law Society.

10 November 2014

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While he sees opportunities in the current oversupply of lawyers in the country, Ashley Balls also sees an annual 4% growth rate in the number of practicing certificates between 1975 and 2007 as ‘scary, because that’s not being matched by increased demand’. He said: ‘For the future I think it means re-training. It means some frustration, it means a perpetuation of comparatively low salaries for a little while, but I think it’s exciting.’ Source: NZ Law Society