What is the current state of the law on the role of advocates in the courts?

Similar policy concerns were expressed by May L.J. in Abse v. Smith, supra, at p. 555: First, I have no doubt that it is essential for the proper administration of justice in the courts of this country and the maintenance of the rule of law throughout the land that every court must retain the untrammelled power of regulating its own proceedings at least in all cases where these are not already regulated by ancient usage or statute. Secondly, from the accumulated wisdom of the courts, as exemplified in the authorities … as well as from my own experience both as advocate and judge, I think that it is essential that those who act as advocates in our courts, particularly in the higher courts … should be members of a profession or professions subject to a strict code of discipline and etiquette and who have been thoroughly trained and practiced in the skills of advocacy, in the proper and expeditious conduct of litigation and in the law. One of the most important factors tending not only to the just, but also to the swift, determination of litigation, which is so desirable, is that those who act as advocates for the litigants concerned have been thoroughly trained and are indeed adequately experienced to do so.