The City of London Law Society criticises LSB training proposals as "deeply flawed"
updated on 06 January 2014
The proposals published by the Legal Services Board (LSB) following the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) have been heavily criticised by the City of London Law Society (CLLS).
As reported by Legal Week, the CLLS has recently published its consultation response to the LSB consultation paper: Increasing flexibility in legal education and training. In its response, the CLLS concludes that the consultation paper is "deeply flawed, both as to the concepts it addresses and as to the consultation process itself". The LSB had disagreed with some of the LETR’s proposals and did not support the idea that the number of law school places should be limited. The CLLS has hit out at the super-regulator for attempting to dictate market needs and condemned the proposal of statutory guidance for implementation of the LETR.
The CLLS commented: "If there is to be [statutory] guidance it has to be well thought out, based on evidence. We would have thought the current consultation paper should be withdrawn."
