Aspiring criminal barristers and solicitors are now welcome to submit their applications for this year’s Legal Trainee Scheme with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The 2018 scheme opened on 28 February, and those interested have until 21 March to complete their applications. The scheme offers up to 30 places throughout England and Wales to applicants wishing to pursue a career in criminal law, and will provide a one-year pupillage with the chance to become a permanent Crown Prosecutor upon successful qualification. Potential applicants need a minimum 2:2 at undergraduate level and should have completed either a Bar Professional Training Course or their Legal Practice Course in time to begin their placement in November 2018. Further details can be found on the CPS website.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
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London promotion underscores firm’s investment in white collar and investigations
Ward Hadaway—Louise Miller
Private client team strengthened by partner appointment
NLJ Career Profile: Kate Gaskell, Flex Legal
Kate Gaskell, CEO of Flex Legal, reflects on chasing her childhood dreams underscores the importance of welcoming those from all backgrounds into the profession
NEWS
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
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In Ward v Rai, the High Court reaffirmed that imprecise points of dispute can and will be struck out. Writing in NLJ this week, Amy Dunkley of Bolt Burdon Kemp reports on the decision and its implications for practitioners
Could the Supreme Court’s
ruling in R v Hayes; R v Palombo
unintentionally unsettle future
complex fraud trials? Maia Cohen-Lask of Corker Binning explores
the question in NLJ this week
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