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Emergency Episode: The SQE shambles

By Christian Smith 16 April 2024 17:35

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The Lawyer‘s Christian Smith, Catrin Griffiths, Richard Simmons, Katy Dowell and Charlotte Lear are joined by College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor for this emergency episode of The Lawyer Podcast as they discuss the latest Solicitors Qualification Exam debacle: marking errors that led to 175 students being incorrectly told they had failed.

What went wrong, who’s to blame, and what happens next?

Listen now at one of the links below:

Previously on The Lawyer…

16 Apr 24: The SRA is on the ropes
15 Apr 24: SQE fiasco as Kaplan wrongly tells 175 students they failed
28 Mar 24: The Lawyer Podcast: The SQE: Students deserve better than this
21 Mar 24: SQE discontent mounts as future lawyers take to social media
28 Oct 20: LSB gives super-exam thumbs-up for 2021 launch but warns it is “not without risk”
12 Jun 20: JLD calls for super-exam delay after “troubling” pilot results
17 Feb 20: SRA mystified as LPC pass rates go haywire
1 Aug 18 Kaplan gets contract to run SRA super-exam – but no word yet on cost
9 May 17: Law teachers blast “disingenuous” SRA over super-exam
25 Apr 17: GDL and LPC set to vanish as SRA announces super-exam will launch in 2020
11 Jan 17: City of London Law Society: super-exam will cause ‘irreparable damage’

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