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Blunder excludes Indian lawyers from QLTS

As a foreign qualified lawyer I had to deal with the SRA three years ago when requalifying here. Despite having just obtained a Masters Degree in English civil procedure, they would not grant me a dispensation from taking the civil procedure QLTT exam! After dealing with 5-6 individuals at the SRA, my conclusion was that the dregs of the legal world must somehow fall through the cracks in order to find themselves employed there. What a bunch of pencil-pushing, red-tape infatuated idiots, and what fittingly stupid regulations they had put in place. Reading this story today has me banging my head on the desk all over again. What megalomaniac IDIOT decided that the measure of whether a jurisdiction can be a Recognised Jurisdiction should be whether the foreign bar association replies to the SRA's survey request? How unbelievably crass to penalise individuals for something completely out of their control. No wonder the SRA receives no respect in the legal community.

8-Sep-2010

4:16 pm