As reported by the Law Gazette, the number of students submitting applications to study the legal practice course is down 10% on 2013 figures.

Bar chairman Alistair MacDonald QC has said that there should be a complete ban on all fees paid by barristers to instructing solicitors to prevent attempts to disguise referral fees as administration fees.

City firm and veritable fairy godmother Linklaters has launched a new competition called Aspire which allows entrants to select their own prize.

The search is on to find the UK’s best paralegals as entries open for this year’s National Paralegal Awards. 

BPP Law School has announced that, subject to validation from the Bar Standards Board, it will be offering the BPTC at its Manchester location from September 2013.

The social mobility scheme Pathways to Law is being widened to GCSE students, the Sutton Trust has announced. 

The University of Law has announced that it will be running the Bar Professional Training Course at its Leeds centre from September 2016.

The College of Law has launched an online 'virtual open day'.

Irwin Mitchell and The College of Law have joined forces with an agreement that will see members of the firm offered tailored training at all levels of their careers.

First reported in Legal Futures, the SRA has now formally announced that it will not be ready to start regulating alternative business structures (ABS) in early October because of parliamentary delays.

US law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has launched an in-house pupillage scheme.

The Bar Standards Board has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Inns of Court to recognise the “vital” role played by the Inns for aspiring barristers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced that non-practising solicitors will need to pay a £20 charge to stay on the roll from next year. The change will affect around 60,000 non-practising solicitors who are already on the roll.

London South Bank University has released a manual on how to establish and manage a drop-in legal advice clinic.

The Legal Services Consumer Panel, the law watchdog, has claimed in its submission to the Legal Education and Training Review that legal training is failing because it is too generalised.

Solicitors representing young people in the youth courts are to receive specialist support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to help them meet the needs of their young clients. 

The Legal Education Foundation has announced the appointment of two new governors, while confirming that its latest round of grants total over £500,000.

A legal research website which relies on crowdsourcing and user ratings for its content was launched last week.

For the second year in a row, The College of Law and the International Bar Association are offering scholarships towards fees for the full-time LLM in International Legal Practice, which runs at CoL's Moorgate and Manchester centres.

The presence of multiple-choice questions (MCQ) in the new Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) will make the assessment more rigorous than critics think, according to the person in charge of designing the SQE framework.