The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)'s Competence Statement has cleared its final hurdle following Board approval and will be published at the beginning of April. As part of a new training regime ...

The Legal Services Board has published a new statutory statement of policy on ongoing competence, setting out the outcomes that the legal services regulators should meet. The Bar Council fed into the ...

How can a solicitor reflect on the quality of their practice? As professionals, we constantly ask ourselves: ‘Did my advice get the key issues across in a way the client understood? Did I negotiate ...

Flexibility in how professional standards are met should be the cornerstone of training. Now that our consultation on the proposed competence statement for solicitors has closed, it is opportune to ...