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“Illogical and not in the public interest”: Bar chief attacks QASA as solicitors join show of unity
Monday, 28 January 2013The Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates is illogical in its treatment of QCs and does not serve the public interest by allowing solicitors to act as plea-only advocates, the chairman of the Bar Council has argued. The claims come as the bodies representing criminal law solicitors and barristers united in calling for a halt to the scheme.
Tags: Bar Council, bar standards board, criminal law, ILEX Professional Standards, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Consumer panel attacks regulators for not making lawyer registers available to comparison websites
Monday, 28 January 2013Legal regulators have failed to open up their professional registers containing disciplinary information to price comparison websites, despite having been instructed to do so by the Legal Services Board, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has complained.
Tags: bar standards board, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, price comparison, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Consumer panel, Latest news, Legal Executives, Other lawyers, Solicitors
Barristers fear QASA boycott will lead to loss of right to practise
Tuesday, 22 January 2013Some barristers are worried that boycotting the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates will lead to their committing a criminal offence by practising without authorisation, the chairman of the Criminal Bar Association has revealed. Meanwhile, the first wave of judicial training on the scheme has been successfully completed.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Circuits call heads of chambers meetings to consider QASA boycott
Friday, 18 January 2013The six circuits have each called meetings of heads of chambers to discuss whether to boycott the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), it has emerged. The leader of the south-eastern circuit said two aspects of QASA remain “entirely objectionable”.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Final Legal Education and Training Review report delayed
Monday, 14 January 2013Completion of the much-anticipated Legal Education and Training Review has been delayed, it has emerged. The academic team compiling the report after 18 months of research and consultation was meant to have delivered it by the end of 2012.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, LETR, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Rules on judicial evaluation and QCs to change in QASA shake-up
Friday, 21 December 2012More time to obtain judicial assessments and greater recognition for QCs have emerged as key amendments to the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, leaving some of the most contentious aspects – such as plea-only advocates – unchanged.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Frontline regulators hit back at LSB assessment of their performance
Friday, 21 December 2012Some of the frontline regulators have hit back at the Legal Services Board’s assessment of their performance. A detailed report on the “smaller” regulators found a wide range of competence, both across the different regulators and within each of them individually.
Tags: conveyancing, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX Professional Standards, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, Legal Services Board
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Other lawyers, Solicitors
LSB lays down challenge to regulators – prove you can do the job or face action
Thursday, 13 December 2012The Legal Services Board (LSB) has told the regulators it oversees that now is the time for them to prove they can deliver what is expected of them, warning that it will put their promises “to the test”. The LSB said its focus in 2013/14 will be on the performance of the regulators.
Tags: Costs Lawyer Standards Board, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX Professional Standards, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, IPReg, Legal Services Board
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Susskind lays out blueprint for education and training reform
Thursday, 18 October 2012The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) should recruit a high-powered team of young lawyers to vet its proposals and provide fresh insights into the future of the legal marketplace, Professor Richard Susskind has urged.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, LETR, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Revealed: criminal Bar threatens JR over "unlawful and unworkable" advocacy scheme
Monday, 8 October 2012The Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) is unlawful, unnecessary and unworkable and will be judicially reviewed if it goes ahead, criminal law barristers will warn this week in a response to the final consultation seen by this website.
Tags: bar standards board, criminal law, ILEX Professional Standards, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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