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Another barrier falls as Government Legal Service opens doors to chartered legal executives
Thursday, 18 June 2015The Government Legal Service has decided to open its lawyer job vacancies to fellows of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives for the first time. The first job being advertised is a £53,196 position as lawyer at HM Revenue & Customs.
Tags: chartered legal executives, CILEx, Government Legal Service
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Regulation
First legal executives granted historic independent practice rights
Monday, 30 March 2015A member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives who specialises in conveyancing has become the first to receive independent practice rights. A probate specialist and a legal executive who runs his own immigration firm were also granted independent rights.
Tags: chartered legal executives, CILEx Regulation, conveyancing, immigration, practice rights, probate, reserved legal activities
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
IPS applies to raise fines limit for legal executives from £3,000 to £50m
Thursday, 4 December 2014ILEX Professional Standards (IPS) has applied to the Legal Services Board (LSB) to raise the maximum fines limit for chartered legal executives from the current £3,000 to a top level of £50m.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, chartered legal executives, CILEx, fines, ILEX Professional Standards
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Act, Regulation
Parliament clears way for legal executive law firms
Thursday, 27 November 2014Chartered legal executives will be able to set up their own law firms in the New Year – a move that ILEX Professional Standards said would for the first time also give solicitors’ firms a choice of regulator, and that the government said would help consumers access legal services.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, chartered legal executives, CILEx, ILEX Professional Standards
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
Parliament gives green light to open up probate and conveyancing rights
Friday, 24 October 2014The House of Lords yesterday gave the final go-ahead for chartered legal executives and others with appropriate expertise to offer probate and conveyancing services without the supervision of solicitors.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, chartered legal executives, conveyancing, practice rights, probate
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Other lawyers
Chartered legal executives to enjoy parity with solicitors
Monday, 10 March 2014Chartered legal executives are to have full rights to practise independently after the Lord Chancellor approved their bid to handle probate and conveyancing work without the supervision of a solicitor.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, chartered legal executives, ILEX Professional Standards, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, IPReg
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
Here comes the legal executive law firm as CILEx applies for independent practice rights
Tuesday, 26 March 2013The prospect of chartered legal executives setting up their own law firms moved closer to reality yesterday after their regulator submitted an application for the full range of independent practice rights. It has won immediate support from a Conservative MP.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, chartered legal executives, CILEx, ILEX Professional Standards, reserved legal activities
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board
Neuberger: legal education and training review may be fatally flawed
Friday, 16 November 2012The Legal Education and Training Review may end up “unbalanced or worse” because it has incorrectly identified its purpose, the president of the Supreme Court warned last night. Lord Neuberger also questioned the need for root-and-branch change.
Tags: bar professional training course, BPTC, chartered legal executives, legal education and training review, legal practice course, Legal Services Act, LETR, LPC
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation
Bar Council to press "sympathetic" Grayling to scrap LSB
Monday, 12 November 2012The new Lord Chancellor has said he is “sympathetic” with the notion that the legal profession is over-regulated, the chairman of the Bar Council has claimed as he stepped up his call for the Legal Services Board to be scrapped.
Tags: advocacy, Bar Council, chartered legal executives, Legal Services Board, solicitor-advocates
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Board
New CILEx president: give us independent practice rights
Wednesday, 11 July 2012The absence of independent practice rights for chartered legal executives has created a series of “absurdities” and there is no sensible reason to deny those rights, the incoming president of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has claimed.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, chartered legal executives, conveyancing, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Board, litigation, practice rights, probate
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives