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20 March 2015 / Alan Kershaw
Issue: 7645 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Alan Kershaw explains why CILEx Regulation stands out in a crowded market

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has come a very long way over the past seven years.

As chair of its regulatory arm, ILEX Professional Standards Ltd (IPS), which we are now renaming CILEx Regulation, I have seen the realisation of aspirations which Chartered Legal Executives have nurtured for a generation or more: robust and affordable educational arrangements producing lawyers fully competent in their field; a diverse and vibrant professional community accurately reflecting the communities it serves; sensible, adult requirements for continuing professional development; the Royal Charter, recognising the Institute’s standing and its demonstrable public interest focus; modern, proportionate arrangements for regulation which are—believe it or not—recognised by CILEx members as a major benefit of their membership. And now, setting the seal, the right to practise in their own names as independent practitioners in all the legal specialties—litigation, advocacy, conveyancing, probate, immigration—and therefore to set up their own firms, which can themselves be regulated by CILEx Regulation.

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