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The Legal Professions Notes

Updated The Legal Professions Notes

GDL English Legal System Notes

GDL English Legal System

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The legal professions

  • The three main professions in the legal field are:

    • solicitors;

    • barristers; and

    • legal executives.

  • Solicitors

    • Work: traditionally solicitors focused primarily on paperwork but they are now doing more advocacy.

    • Qualifications and training: usually a university degree, followed by a conversion course if this was not in law.

    • Then they take the one-year Legal Practice Course and period of recognised training.

  • Barristers

    • Work: traditionally advocacy, but they also do some paperwork.

    • Qualifications and training: usually a university degree, followed by a conversion course if this is not in law.

    • Then they take the one-year Bar Professional Training Course and one-year pupillage.

  • Claims management companies

    • Claims management companies are companies that find people who have a legal problem and refer them to solicitors who pay the company on average 800 for the referral.

    • The payment of referral fees for personal injury claims was banned by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

  • Quality assurance scheme for advocates

    • The regulators of the legal professions are together establishing a Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) to respond to concerns over the quality of advocacy in the courts.

  • Complaints

    • The position of Legal Ombudsman was created in 2010 to investigate and resolve complaints about the service provided by lawyers.

  • Background of barristers and solicitors

    • Barristers and solicitors have...

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