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Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd becomes a CILEx Honorary Vice-President
Thursday, 30 November 2017Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd has been made an honorary Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) in recognition of his support of and close association with the Institute.
Tags: CILEX
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Law firms, legal executives and licensed conveyancers join forces to lobby for leasehold reform
Wednesday, 21 June 2017A new property law alliance, the Legal Sector Group, has written to the government with a detailed set of proposals on leasehold reform. It brings together the Conveyancing Association, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, the Society of Licensed Conveyancers and the Bold Legal Group. The Law Society has decided not to join.
Tags: CILEX, conveyancing, Conveyancing Association, Law Society, Society of Licensed Conveyancers
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CILEx lobbies peers’ committee for judicial diversity
Friday, 28 April 2017CILEx vice-president Millicent Grant gave evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee in March during an inquiry on judicial appointments.
Tags: CILEX
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The Government Legal Department: career opportunities for Chartered Legal Executives
Monday, 24 April 2017The Government Legal Department – the government’s principal legal advisers – provides advice to most central government departments, including the Ministry of Justice and Home Office.
Tags: CILEX
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Proposals to modernise the home-moving process
Thursday, 13 April 2017The CA’s white paper, Modernising the home moving process, sets out the results of the association’s research and consultations with conveyancing stakeholders across the industry, in the UK and abroad, to identify the constraints in the home-moving process and the solutions employed in other jurisdictions as well as the CA’s own vision of how a future technology supported process could operate.
Tags: CILEX
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The Citizens Advice Witness Service: supporting witnesses in criminal cases
Thursday, 6 April 2017The Citizens Advice Witness Service provides a vital facility offering free and independent support for witnesses in every criminal court across England and Wales
Tags: CILEX
Posted in associate news
CILEX
Friday, 3 February 2017CILEX is the professional association for over 20,000 Chartered Legal Executive lawyers, paralegals and other legal practitioners in England and Wales. All members are regulated by CILEx Regulation Limited. CILEX provides education, training and the development of skills for its… Read More
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Mixed response to LSB’s plan for regulatory overhaul, with Falconer calling for focus on unmet legal need instead
Wednesday, 14 September 2016Reactions from key legal services industry bodies to the Legal Services Board’s blueprint for radical form of legal regulation have ranged from enthusiastic welcome to anger at its timing, while the politician who introduced the Legal Services Act 2007 said tackling unmet legal need was more of a priority.
Tags: Bar Council, bar standards board, CILEX, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board
CILEx urges end to discrimination against non-university qualified lawyers
Monday, 15 August 2016The body representing chartered legal executives has called on the profession to end discrimination against lawyers who have qualified through non-university routes and open up the senior judiciary to those entered the law by alternative means.
Tags: CILEX, Legal Executives
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Legal Executives
Bar Council: use direct access barristers instead of paid McKenzie Friends
Friday, 10 June 2016Litigants with limited funds should use direct access barristers to represent them in court rather than pay for McKenzie Friends, the Bar Council has argued. The Bar Council, along with the Law Society and Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, supported the judiciary’s call for a ban on professional McKenzie Friends.
Tags: Bar Council, Barristers, CILEX, Law Society
Posted in Latest news, Regulation
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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