Legal chiefs from the Solomon Islands have said lawyers are desperately needed in the sun-drenched archipelago.
The Chair of the South Pacific Lawyers Association, Ross Ray QC, told Radio Australia that there is currently only one lawyer per 13,500 people in the Solomon Islands, compared to a ratio of 1:350 in Australia. And 40 of the 42 "overworked" lawyers in private practice work on the biggest island, Guadalcanal, leaving the other 340 occupied islands to just two solicitors.
Ray confessed that the lower wages mean "It is sometimes difficult to attract junior lawyers", who seem to prefer toiling in gloomy foreign cities for more money, presumably so one day they can afford to move to an island paradise. According to Ray any lawyers put off by the recent earthquake can take their pick of a raft of other utopic spots, since lawyers are in high demand across the Pacific: "When we go to Fiji for example, it's one lawyer to just under 4,000".
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The Chair of the South Pacific Lawyers Association, Ross Ray QC, told Radio Australia that there is currently only one lawyer per 13,500 people in the Solomon Islands, compared to a ratio of 1:350 in Australia. And 40 of the 42 "overworked" lawyers in private practice work on the biggest island, Guadalcanal, leaving the other 340 occupied islands to just two solicitors.
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Ray confessed that the lower wages mean "It is sometimes difficult to attract junior lawyers", who seem to prefer toiling in gloomy foreign cities for more money, presumably so one day they can afford to move to an island paradise. According to Ray any lawyers put off by the recent earthquake can take their pick of a raft of other utopic spots, since lawyers are in high demand across the Pacific: "When we go to Fiji for example, it's one lawyer to just under 4,000".