The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has a new president, Philip Sherwood.
Under CILEx’s new group board structure, Sherwood will chair the 11-member board of CILEx Professional, which promotes the interests of legal executives. The other parts of the group structure are its educational body CILEx Law School and its business wing Group Services.
Sherwood specialised in personal injury work before becoming an independent costs consultant, and also works as a consultant at costs law firm Citadel Law.
During his tenure, he’d like to see members gain rights of audience on qualification—currently, members must apply to CILEx for additional advocacy rights before they can appear in open court in the county court, magistrates’ court and Crown court.
‘That’s one thing that holds our members back at the moment,’ he said.
‘They qualify, gain the title of chartered legal executive and there’s a further process they have to go through to get rights of audience. But we have achieved so much.’
Last week, the Lord Chancellor approved CILEx Regulation to license alternative business structures.
