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17 April 2008
Issue: 7317 / Categories: Legal News , Training & education
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Training Pilot

News In Brief

Law firms and trainees are being invited to take part in a two-year pilot of a new framework for work-based learning to be launched by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The SRA is seeking volunteers by 6 May to participate. This would involve sending trainees through the new system of in-house assessment. The firms would be asked to report on their systems of training and trainee assessment, and the SRA would quality-assure those systems. Individual trainees who apply would need to demonstrate they have the support of their employer.

Issue: 7317 / Categories: Legal News , Training & education
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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