经过几个世纪的变迁,英国现在有出庭律师、事务律师和王室顾问等几个不同的律师职业阶层。这些律师工作的侧重点不一样,对专业知识的要求也不同,他们共同构成了英国律师界的一个有机整体。针对目前存在的是否需要将出庭律师与事务律师两种职业合并的争议,从历史的角度考证英国律师制度的发展沿革,介绍与之相关的英国法学教育和律师培训的一些特点,可以得出二者之合并不可能在一朝一夕完成的结论。 After several centuries of change, the United Kingdom now has several different occupational lawyers, including courtroom lawyers, solicitors and royal counselors. The focus of these lawyers’ work is different, and they require different professional knowledge. Together, they form an organic whole of British lawyers. In the light of the controversy that there is a need to merge the two kinds of professional appearances in court and solicitors at present, this paper studies the evolution of the British lawyer system from a historical point of view, and introduces some characteristics of the British legal education and lawyer training related to it. The merger of people can not be completed overnight conclusion.