And the effect of this cut will be to make it even more difficult for them to carry on practising this type of law.
But the report does at least throw into sharper relief a problem of our times: the difficulty that arises whenever a religious institution practises a body of law which co-exists with, and sometimes competes with, secular law.The legal system used by the Catholic church is known as canon law.
"While the pressures and intensity can vary depending on the type of law you practise, there's no escaping there's a lot of work and you're likely at some point to find yourself reading papers over the weekend or structuring arguments for a case at 2am".
The trial procedures are kept closely to those rules of law as practised by any court and the records are kept for anyone to peruse. .
Instead of practising law in Athens, where she passed the bar exam, Dimakou has moved her life to an island now famous for the refugees who wash up on its shores.
And when there are big barriers to professional mobility inside a country, it is less likely to open up to foreign competition.Eyes on the prizeBy global standards, the glittering prize of practising law in New York is fairly accessible to anybody with the brains (and a green card).
Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC is director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and a practising barrister at Blackstone Chambers.
Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have.
In East West Street, Philippe Sands, a professor of law and a practising barrister, brings his experience in a wide variety of cases of serious human rights abuses, from Rwanda to Yugoslavia, Guantánamo to Congo-Brazzaville, to an excavation of the origins of the concepts of "crimes against humanity" and "genocide".
Maiming and physical abuse are legal in Somalia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Sudan and other countries that practise sharia law; the hands of thieves are lopped off, and women convicted of adultery may be stoned to death.
He says his decision to practise family law was because of his mother, Alex. "I was the youngest of three and my mum couldn't have any more children.
