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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
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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
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Revised QAA will allow advocates to progress without judicial evaluations
Wednesday, 27 April 2011Advocates seeking accreditation under the quality assurance for advocates (QAA) scheme will be allowed to opt for an assessment centre route rather than judges’ evaluations alone, under new proposals being debated today.
Tags: advocacy, Joint Advocacy Group, QAA, solicitor-advocates
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Expert group to advise on advocacy scheme as Bar regulator hits out at LSB once more
Monday, 24 January 2011Lord Justice Thomas is heading a new expert group to advise the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards on developing and operating the controversial quality assurance for advocates scheme, it has emerged. Meanwhile, the BSB has hit out again at the Legal Services Board’s “unhelpful and ill-timed” intervention over the scheme.
Tags: advocacy, Bar Council, bar standards board, ILEX, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Law Society, QAA, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Exclusive: LSB poised to use enforcement powers for first time in “test of credibility”
Sunday, 9 January 2011The Legal Services Board is explicitly threatening the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards with using its formal enforcement powers for the first time over their quality assurance for advocates scheme, Legal Futures can reveal. The regulators have branded the move as neither “helpful nor necessary”.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Legal Services Board, QAA, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
Consumers welcome quality assurance for advocates but say scheme has big failings
Friday, 12 November 2010Mandatory quality assurance for criminal advocates is welcome but the scheme currently proposed by the legal profession falls short in several significant ways, the Legal Services Consumer Panel said today. Among the problems are a failure to consider consumer needs, weaker standards than had been consulted on, and allowing advocates to choose which cases they are assessed on.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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