ISSUE 82


Summer 2013


In this issue Committee Reports p.4


Lawyers Cricket World Cup p.8


The newsletter of the City of London


Solicitors’ Company and the City of London Law Society


CitySolicitor www.citysolicitors.org.uk


Company Prize p.9 Film Reviews p.10


Past Master Mark Sheldon p.12


AGM Prizes p.14


Fox goes to the sun p.16


Legal Education and Training Review


The long awaited Report coming out of the Legal Education and Training Review was published on 25 June 2013 and is available on the LETR website (http://letr.org. uk/the-report/index.html).


At nearly 400 pages, it is a substantial piece of work and while the entire Report warrants the effort of digesting it all, the key information is set out in the Executive Summary and Chapter 7 (Conclusions and Recommendations).


It is not the purpose of this piece to give a summary of the whole Report, rather to highlight some issues of particular importance to the CLLS membership. That said, for those readers who are or whose firms are members of the Legal Education & Training Group (LETG), that Group has prepared a very useful summary of the Report – see (http://www.letg.org.uk/news/ article/51c9afa423ecc) (Member password required).


The Recommendations in the Report have been described as “evolutionary, rather than revolutionary” and contain relatively little that will be a surprise to anyone who has followed the Review as it has progressed over the last two years.


To flag some of the more significant issues coming out of the Report


continuum. However, the Report does not recommend major changes to the Qualifying Law Degree (QLD).


(3 Retaining some form of ‘supervised practice’


though


with the removal of perceived barriers and with the potential for greater flexibility for the length of that period of practical experience.


(4) Introducing much needed change to the CPD scheme such as greater flexibility in terms of what will count towards satisfying any annual requirement as well as the possibility of removing a fixed, hours-based requirement.


(and with acknowledgement to the LETG summary), the Recommendations include:


(1) Outcomes-based standards for qualifications across the legal services sector.


(2) Proposing the inclusion of ethics, equality & diversity, “values”, commercial and communication skills (e.g. legal writing) throughout the training


(5) Support for a non-graduate route into the profession and the further development of legal apprenticeships as well as a voluntary system of certification/licensing of paralegals.


(6) The creation of the Legal Education Council as a forum for continuing the review and advising the regulators of the sector on the regulation of education and training across the sector.


(Cont. on page 3 The City of London Solicitors’ Company


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