CILEx gets probate rights

CILEx fellows are to be given independent practice rights over probate and conveyancing. The Legal Services Board gave its approval to the change this week. It will allow ILEX Professional Standards (IPS), the legal executive regulator, to authorise and regulate practitioners in the two areas. Currently, a solicitor or other authorised person must supervise legal executives working in this area, and sign certain forms. The new rights could be in place by early 2015. IPS chair Alan Kershaw says: “We have cleared a significant hurdle.”