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SRA gets a roasting as deferrals leave students out in the cold

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of roles here. The SRA is the regulator, and takes money for registering a student and their training contract, and ensures that the terms of that contract are in conformity with the requirements of the training regulations. If there is a problem with the employment relationship, that is a matter between the individual and the employer. But surely the body that should be criticised is The Law Society which, as the representative body for solicitors and trainees is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to represent the interests of students and trainees here. That's because it's fearful of the firms deciding that the Society is pointless, and not wanting to pay for its activities. Where is the Junior Lawyers Division in all this? It has been conspicuously quiet. The old Trainee Solicitors Group would have broken the baseball bats out by now, and given the firms and the Law Society a good working over!

20-Apr-2009

5:19 pm