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18 July 2013 / Dr Jon Robins
Issue: 7569 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Training & education , Profession
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A work in progress

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Jon Robins turns the spotlight on the conclusions & recommendations of the long awaited LETR

It’s been a long time coming but the much delayed final report of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) is finally out. Some six months after it was due and weighing in at around 350 pages, it is (as the chairman of the Legal Services Board David Edmonds has put it) “an important milestone, rather than the last word on the subject”.

Depending on where you sit in the legal services market, your concerns around the state of education and training of prospective lawyers will vary. You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater diversity in a profession that remains too white, middle-class, and male to differing degrees in differing parts; you might be anxious about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed about the oversupply of graduates

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Private wealth and tax team welcomes cross-border specialist as consultant

HFW—Simon Petch

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Freeths—Richard Lockhart

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Infrastructure specialist joins as partner in Glasgow office

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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