The deadline is 5pm on 31st March 2023. Contracts are planned to start 1st September 2023. This is for the following Practice areas: • Family• Housing, Debt and Welfare Benefits• Immigration and Asylum (including work at Immigration Removal Centres)• Mental Health• Community Care• Claims Against Public Authorities (formerly known as ‘Actions Against the Police etc’)• […]
We have checked out the process with the SRA. The Agreed Exemption applies with regard to the application for exemption from SQE2. You fill in the details through your ‘MySRA’ profile on the SARA website. The Agreed Exemption does NOT apply to any other exemption you are applying for – such as exemption from the […]
The SRA has issued some guidance on the situation when a client has approached a firm asking them to hold monies on their behalf, but the firm does not wish to do so. First of all it is worth pointing out that it is up to the firm to decide whether it has a Client […]
These changes will come into effect on 1st April 2023. In summary: 1 – A change to time limits for referring a complaint to the LEO (reduced to 1 year from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint, or date of knowledge) 2 – Discretion to decline to issue a […]
Our lead consultant, Ingemar Hunnings, has spoken with Tim Prior, Authorisation Officer at the SRA on 22nd February 2023 to get clarification on this. Tim was quite clear in his response. Foreign Qualified Lawyers who are taking the SQE1 and SQE2 exams are exempt from the requirement for Qualifying Work Experience (QWE). This is the […]
If you are a foreign qualified lawyer from Ukraine, Russia or Belarus (and other ex-Warsaw Pact or Soviet Union countries), the set up of your legal profession, inherited from soviet days, would appear to present a problem if you are seeking exemption from the SQE2 exam on your route to qualifying as a solicitor of […]
By statutory instrument the UK government quietly brought in a major change to the costs & damages regime for England & Wales. This will come into effect for all cases issued in the courts from 6th April 2023. The LS Gazette reports that the government has quietly changed the CPR at the beginning of February […]
The Government's financial sanctions regime now includes a ban on providing trust services to those connected with Russia. The UK regime is operated by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). The measures are imposed by the Government to achieve specific foreign policy or national security objectives. There have been a number of changes to the […]
There are 11 of us now in the team - we'll run through the capabilities. Ingemar is the lead consultant & founder covering most aspects, running the company and am the subject expert on LEAP. He is ably supported by Brenda who in addition controls finance, does a lot of admin & prep work. We […]
The SRA has published guidance for the firms and solicitors it regulates on how they should supervise staff. They have written: "This guidance should help regulated individuals and law firms’ managers and senior staff understand what we expect them to do to meet the current statutory and regulatory requirements on supervision. The guidance should help […]
