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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
Safe hands: why the paralegal work-based learning graduates are fit to be solicitors
Thursday, 7 July 2011Jane Ching, Reader at Nottingham Law School, outlines its experience of running the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s work-based learning pilot that offered a route to qualification as a solicitor for those working as paralegals.
Tags: Solicitors Regulation Authority, work-based learning
Posted in Features, hrtraining, Solicitors
“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
Peers call for changes to stop ABSs falling into the hands of criminals
Friday, 1 July 2011Alternative business structures should not be introduced until stronger provisions are put in place to stop those convicted of dishonesty from taking a stake in them, a leading Conservative peer has said. Lord Hunt of Wirral called on the government to introduce exceptions to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
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
Insurer blames SRA after opting not to enter solicitors’ professional indemnity market
Thursday, 23 June 2011A potential new professional indemnity insurer has blamed the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s failure to tackle the market’s problems more quickly as the reason it will not be offering cover to law firms this year.
Tags: assigned risks pool, Jackson report, professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, News, Solicitors
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
SRA receives green light to license ABSs
Thursday, 16 June 2011The Legal Services Board is to recommend to the Lord Chancellor that the Law Society – through the Solicitors Regulation Authority – become an alternative business structure licensing authority. However, there has been a disagreement over the separate business rule.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Office of Fair Trading, OFR, outcomes-focused regulation, separate business rule, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
Abandon hope – but not your firm
Wednesday, 8 June 2011Recent figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority suggest that the number of law firms being abandoned is on the rise, with abandonment reports at their highest level since 2008. Joanne Wright outlines the options facing solicitors who want to shut up shop.
Tags: Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Features
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