The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) has warned that aspiring solicitors are open to exploitation under the new routes to qualification being implemented by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). In an open letter to the SRA’s CEO Paul Philip, it urged him to reconsider the decision to no longer regulate training contracts and training principals, writing: […]
The University of Law has announced plans to open a tenth campus, in Nottingham. Based at One Royal Standard Place, it will open to students next September. It will offer the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) – at least until those courses are phased out with the introduction of the new […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has pushed back the introduction of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) by another year, following feedback from universities and law firms. The SRA originally said the new way of qualifying as a solicitor should be in place by 2019; however, that estimate was later pushed back to autumn 2020. It now anticipates […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has named Kaplan as the organisation which will be setting the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). The new way of qualifying as a solicitor, which concludes with the so-called ‘super-exam’, was first mooted by the SRA at the end of 2015, but it was met with resistance by segments of […]
Avid Lawyer 2B readers will be well aware of the SRA’s plans to radically alter the process of qualifying as a solicitor via the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). For those less familiar with the topic, it can be summarised as follows: whereas the current formula for qualification can crudely be expressed as […]
Having completed a degree, LPC and training contract, most trainees are anxious to begin life as a newly qualified solicitor. One final hurdle remains: the SRA Suitability Test 2011.
A large proportion of students are still ignorant of the introduction of the new ‘super-exam’ for qualifying solicitors, according to new research.
The Association of Law Teachers (ALT) has criticised the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s “disingenuous” reporting of the reaction to its proposed reforms to legal education.
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The move spells the end for the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course.
Questions have been asked in the House of Lords about the super-exam that aspiring solicitors will have to take at the point of qualification if proposals by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) go through.
The Society of Legal Scholars has become the latest group to criticise the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) plans to reform the legal education system.
