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Scrap training contract and make LPC the “gateway” to legal practice, says think tank
Tuesday, 23 November 2010The solicitors’ training contract should be abolished and frontline regulators compelled to co-operate on standards of training for reserved activities, a legal think tank argues in a report published this week.
Tags: legal education
Posted in hrtraining, News, Solicitors
Edmonds: cut length of legal education to shrink student debt
Monday, 22 November 2010Growing student debt means the length of time would-be lawyers spend studying needs to shrink, the chairman of the Legal Services Board has declared. David Edmonds also floated the idea of adopting the accountants’ training model, in which professional training takes place during full-time employment, while appearing to throw cold water on the idea of aptitude testing for students before they begin postgraduate legal education.
Tags: bar standards board, ethics, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, hrtraining, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
Regulators set out terms of training review
Friday, 19 November 2010The three biggest legal regulators have set out the terms of their two-year joint review of education and training. The review – being undertaken by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards – will examine the educational requirements placed upon individuals entering the sector and their regulatory function.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Edmonds to back regulators’ education and training review as LSB role is curbed
Thursday, 18 November 2010Legal Services Board (LSB) chairman David Edmonds will tomorrow back a review of legal education and training but warn that he expects it to be far-reaching, Legal Futures has learned. However, we understand that the LSB had originally planned to conduct the review itself, but has been persuaded to let the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards take the lead under the LSB’s oversight.
Tags: bar standards board, continuing professional development, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
Kenny backs aptitude testing and hits out at using ethics as “wall of exclusivity”
Thursday, 28 October 2010Legal Services Board chief executive Chris Kenny has spoken out in favour of the “holy grail” of diversity neutral aptitude testing across legal careers. Addressing a legal education conference at Harvard University in America – one of the first times the LSB has seriously addressed its role in legal education – Mr Kenny also hit out at lawyers who see their ethical training as creating “a wall of professional exclusivity”.
Tags: ethics, legal education, Legal Services Board
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