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SRA bids to scrap minimum salary for trainees
Thursday, 12 January 2012There is no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old policy of minimum salaries for trainee solicitors, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said. It also admitted to concerns that the Legal Education and Training Review’s timetable is too tight.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, minimum salary, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
News in brief: SRA renewals delay, referral fee “ignorance”, and much more
Monday, 24 October 2011Our regular round-up of news you need to know includes the appeal court quashing an ILEX disciplinary ruling, delays for solicitors renewing practising certificates, a survey of young drivers on referral fees, a survey finding support for outsourcing and much more besides.
Tags: fixed fees, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Law Society, Legal Services Board, outsourcing, professional indemnity insurance, qualified lawyers transfer scheme, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, News In Brief, Outsourcing, Solicitors
Education and training review “may not report until 2013”, Potter admits
Monday, 17 October 2011The legal education and training review, commissioned by the three main frontline legal regulators in November 2010, may not produce its final report until some point in 2013, it has emerged. Meanwhile, the academic body contracted to provide research has shut down, but the work will continue.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
QASA set for April as regulators prepare for judges not doing their bit
Monday, 17 October 2011The controversial Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) will now go live in April 2012, it emerged last week. We can also reveal that contingency plans have been drawn up for the judiciary not playing its expected role in QASA.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Legal Services Board, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Regulation, Solicitors
Controversial advocacy scheme now faces delay, regulators admit
Friday, 7 October 2011The launch of the controversial quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates is likely to be delayed, the Joint Advocacy Group has announced. “Some adjustments” to the scheme are likely “to ensure that there are not unintended consequences”.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, Barristers, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, solicitor-advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
QASA under pressure with sudden move to pilot scheme and barristers up in arms
Thursday, 22 September 2011The controversial Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates may now be subject to a full pilot, it has emerged, at the same time as criminal barristers are up in arms at Legal Services Commission plans to use the scheme to end payments for QCs, which they say threatens its whole future.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal aid, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
CLC hits back at Lord Chief Justice and Law Society opposition to new rights
Friday, 5 August 2011The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has hit back at opposition from the Lord Chief Justice and the Law Society to its application to grant rights to conduct advocacy and litigation. The Legal Services Board is currently considering the CLC’s application, and as one of its statutory consultees, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has expressed his total opposition.
Tags: advocacy, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, litigation rights, Office of Fair Trading, probate, reserved legal activities
Posted in Legal Services Board, News, Other lawyers
ILEX is first to receive LSB clean bill of health on regulatory independence
Friday, 22 July 2011The Institute of Legal Executives is the first approved regulator to receive a clean bill of health for its internal governance arrangements for 2011. The Legal Services Board is currently reviewing the regulatory independence certificates submitted by each approved regulator where there is also a linked representative body. There is no news yet on either the Law Society or Bar Council’s certificates.
Tags: Association of Costs Lawyers, Bar Council, bar standards board, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, IPReg, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Other lawyers, Regulation
Barristers and solicitors continue battle over role of judges in advocacy assessments
Wednesday, 20 July 2011The Bar has launched a last-ditch bid to focus the criminal advocates’ quality assurance scheme on judicial evaluation and steer it away from the alternative assessment centre route favoured by solicitors. Despite lobbying from solicitor groups, the SRA has confirmed its support for the scheme.
Tags: advocacy, Bar Council, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Law Society, Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
SRA board moves to solicitor/lay parity with appointment of ex-LCS chief
Friday, 8 July 2011The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority this month moved to parity between solicitor and lay ordinary members, ahead of introducing a lay majority in two years’ time. Shamit Saggar, the former chairman of the Legal Complaints Service, joined the board this month as part of a deal with the Legal Services Board.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, internal governance rules, Law Society, Legal Complaints Service, legal education and training review, Legal Services Board, Office of Fair Trading, Review 2020, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors