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“Legally Speaking” website to engage with consumers as panel survives quango cull
Wednesday, 6 July 2011The Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board have begun work on creating an online “virtual community” for consumers known as “Legally Speaking”. The news comes as we can reveal the Legal Services Consumer Panel has escaped the “bonfire of the quangos” – just as the panel’s chairwoman is stepping down.
Tags: bar standards board, Citizens Advice, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Consumer panel, News, Solicitors
A single regulator for all lawyers post-ABS is “logical and plausible”, says LSB report
Monday, 27 June 2011A single regulator for all legal services is “logical and plausible”, but not inevitable, a report for the Legal Services Board has concluded. Former Ministry of Justice official Nick Smedley argued that the existence of multiple regulators “focused on the differences of individual practitioners” is unlikely to be relevant in a post-alternative business structures market.
Tags: Association of Costs Lawyers, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, CLC, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, IPReg, Legal Services Board, Master of the Faculties
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Other lawyers, Solicitors
The Apprentice – lawyer style
Friday, 24 June 2011It wasn’t that long ago that you didn’t need a degree to become a solicitor. There are plenty of very eminent solicitors around who joined a law firm after school and did the old five-year articles to qualify. In fact training to be a solicitor started off purely as an apprenticeship in the form of articles of clerkship, with no examinations.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Legal Executives, legal education, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Blog
Avoiding judicial evaluation under QASA will cost advocates dear – literally
Monday, 20 June 2011Magistrates’ court advocates who choose an assessment centre route to progress under the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) could pay as much as 15 times more than those who undergo judicial evaluation.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
Solicitors make last-ditch bid to halt “unjustified” advocacy quality scheme
Tuesday, 7 June 2011The Law Society has launched what appears to be a last-ditch bid to persuade the Legal Services Board to scrap the proposed scheme to assess the quality of criminal advocacy, saying there is no evidence to support the assertion that standards have fallen.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Law Society, Legal Services Board, QAA, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Regulation, Solicitors
SRA reignites debate over judicial assessment of advocates
Wednesday, 1 June 2011The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority today called for talks with a senior judge over concerns about the role of judges in assessing the quality of criminal law advocates.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, QAA, QASA, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in News, Solicitors
Potter, Gaymer and team of top academics join fundamental training review
Tuesday, 10 May 2011A former Court of Appeal judge and the one-time senior partner of City law firm Simmons & Simmons have been appointed joint chairs of a new consultation panel to advise on the fundamental education and training review – now known as “Review 2020″.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education, Review 2020, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, hrtraining, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
Regulators change name of advocacy scheme in face of legal threat from education body
Thursday, 5 May 2011The Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards have been forced to change the name of their advocacy quality scheme after they were threatened with legal action.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, QAA, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
When eight into one may go
Thursday, 14 April 2011Charles Plant, the chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), has finally said the unsayable and brought into focus what could well be the long-term future of regulation for lawyers – a single regulator for all, rather than the multiplicity we currently have.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, internal governance rules, rights of audience, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Blog
MDPs in the spotlight as 12 regulators and professional bodies agree oversight rules
Tuesday, 5 April 2011A memorandum of understanding between legal regulators and regulators and professional bodies in the financial, accountancy and property worlds whose members may be part of multi-disciplinary practices is close to agreement, it has emerged.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, bar standards board, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Financial Services Authority, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Chartered Accountants, IPReg, MDP, multi-disciplinary practice, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Barristers, Legal Executives, News, Other lawyers, Regulation, Solicitors