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NLJ this week: Professional reform

09 July 2020
Issue: 7894 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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Professor Chris Bones, chair of CILEx, makes the case for reforming professional regulation, in this week’s NLJ

Welcoming Professor Stephen Mayson’s review, ‘Reforming legal services’, Professor Bones writes: ‘The continuing insistence on professional differentiation based on whether or not a lawyer has qualified through academic study, or through learning on the job is entirely inappropriate in a modern society.’ 

Also in this week’s issue, Kingsley Napley senior associate Jessica Clay and legal counsel Lucy Williams look at the potential for lasting reform and predict ‘small steps, as opposed to a dramatic step-change’. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Residential conveyancing team expands with solicitor hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
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
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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