‘Most law students believe the legal profession will be resistant to change during their careers, according to research that suggests the next generation of lawyers may be significantly more conservative than many commentators are predicting.’
Legal Week, 6th June 2014
Source: www.legalweek.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) consulted in September 2013 on proposed statutory guidance for
education and training, in advance of regulators proceeding with detailed plans for implementation
of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) which itself was initiated following the LSB
Chairman’s Upjohn Lecture of October 2010.’
Legal Services Board, 4th March 2014
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘When it comes to securing a training contract, it’s often not what you know but who you know that matters.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘This paper is written by representatives of the Council of the Inns of Court and the Advocacy Training Council to assist the ‘Review of the Provision of Independent Criminal Advocacy’ currently being undertaken by Sir Bill Jeffrey at the request of the Secretary of State for Justice.’
The Inner Temple, December 2014
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
‘Law is everywhere providing answers to almost everything. Ever larger numbers of students want to be part of the legal mechanisms that control us, regulate us and take over from politicians when politicians sense their own incapability. It is almost a new religion. In this lecture – and in the discussion to follow – some of the issues dealt with in earlier years by Professor Bogdanor (such as in his lectures, Judges or Legislators: Who Should Rule?, The Judges and the Constitution and The Human Rights Act: Cornerstone of a New Constitution) will be reviewed as will the effect of Europe on our law.’
Gresham College, 4th December 2013
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved a significant revamp of the costs lawyer qualification.’
Litigation Futures, 12th December 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘From the longest case in English legal history to Lord Denning’s rulings, judicial decisions are a law student’s bread and butter.’
The Guardian, 4th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The profession’s regulators face complex and overlapping challenges in creating a legal education system which shifts the focus from the ‘journey’ to the point of qualification.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th November 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Joshua Rozenberg investigates claims that too many students are training to be lawyers in a time when jobs in the legal profession are scarce.”
BBC Law in Action, 29th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Regulators have rejected plans for a legal education council as a ‘distracting talking shop’. The council was proposed in the report of the Legal Education and Training Review in June.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st October 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Solicitors will no longer need to have a degree in order to qualify under a radical shake-up of legal training that it has been claimed could spell the ‘death’ of some law undergraduate courses.”
Times Higher Education, 17th October 2013
Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
“Radical reforms to open more diverse routes to becoming a solicitor, including through apprenticeships, are to be published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th October 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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