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YLAL Statement on the SQE-1 Booking Process (October 2023)
5 October 2023 – Young Legal Aid Lawyers is calling on the SRA and Kaplan (the company contracted to administer the Solicitors…
Statement on Ten Years of LASPO
6 April 2023 This month marks ten years of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“LASPO”) being in…
YLAL’s Response to the first Solicitors Qualifying Examination 1 (SQE1) assessment results
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) implore the SRA, as our regulator, to take urgent and decisive action to address the concerning ethnic group…
YLAL’s response to the delay in the provision of SQE2 exams
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (‘YLAL’) has been made aware of an informal announcement by the SRA and Kaplan (who are responsible for…
YLAL Statement on the Government Response to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid
Sir Christopher Bellamy QC published his report on the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), dated 29 November 2021. This was a wide…
Creating a diverse profession with lawyers equipped for the modern legal market
This article was guest-written by Craig Tickner, the President of CILEX (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) . Around 21% of solicitors and 34%…
Q&A with Katy Robinson on Solicitor Apprenticeships and the SQE
Whilst we’re talking about different routes to qualification, there is another option to the LPC, separate from SQE, which has been available…
SQE: (Un)Reasonable Adjustments?
This article was written by a guest author, who would like to remain anonymous. I decided to write this blog to…
Routes to Qualification
The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) has brought in huge changes to the way in which solicitors become qualified. We have created a…
SQE or LPC: What do the candidates think?
In just a few days’ time the first candidates will sit the new Solicitor’s Qualifying Exam (SQE). For the first…