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Grayling sides with solicitors and attacks barristers on criminal legal aid

Fresh consultation to be launched in September after 'detailed talks' with Law Society

Editor's blog | The predictable LETR paradox

There is a strange but perhaps predictable paradox at the heart of the Legal Education and Training Review. It took two years to produce, and 350 pages later comes up with a set of recommendations that everybody seemed to be expecting and few of which – if any – are in fact proposing any major changes to the current system.

SRA and MoJ 'must get their heads together' on inducements

'Simply unacceptable' that higher standards imposed on CMCs than solicitors

Julian Webb: LETR changes are more than 'tweaks' to the system

Incremental change will equal more than the sum of its parts, including an overhaul of CPD and a focusing on outcomes-focused learning says Webb

Legal Education and Training Review: new beginnings or missed opportunity?

Two years in the making and 350 pages later, the report produced by the Legal Education and Training Review team has come out with the not-so-radical conclusion that professional standards are pretty good. There are undoubtedly some worthwhile recommendations, including scrapping minimum CPD hours and encouraging the regulators to provide alternative access routes. But is it, as the Consumer Panel has said, a missed opportunity? We asked stakeholders for their reaction

Experts | Drawing a line in boundary disputes

Experts can help keep parties in boundary disputes out of court, and their use is only going to increase, believes Mangala Murali

Experts | Medical experts must find a happy medium

Medical experts are almost always needed in clinical negligence litigation, but their role could change after Jackson, even in high-value litigation, says Jeanette Aspinall

McCririck can go ahead with age discrimination claim

Former Channel 4 racing presenter was employee of TV production company