Centre for Legal Education

“Point less” CPD: capability, competence and reflection

Do changes to the SRA’s CPD system for solicitors and solicitors’ firms mean that you go on as before, or that you no longer have to do anything?
If not, what can firms and individuals do to make the transition as effective and painless as possible?

SRA Workplace Experience Project

Professor Jane Ching and Pamela Henderson were recently commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to work alongside their own research team to explore the pre-qualification workplace experiences of individuals who may wish to become solicitors.  The report, which forms part of the SRA’s Training for Tomorrow project, has now been published and can be found […]

When is legal education not legal education?

There are some words I object to, to an almost pathological degree. There is a local sandwich shop, for instance, that advertises both “panini’s” and “baked potato’s”, which precludes me from ever crossing its threshold