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Decision to scrap trainee minimum wage was done with obscene haste

Profession not given the time to consider the proposal and provide meaningful response, says Martin Varley

College of Law bought by Montagu Private Equity

£200m sale proceeds to fund legal education charity

Abolishing minimum salary 'may trigger legal challenge'

Law Society says SRA 'misguided' in launching proposals in advance of LETR

Trainees could earn £2.60 an hour, JLD says

The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) of the Law Society has said that trainee solicitors could end up earning as little as £2.60 an hour under the SRA's plans to scrap the minimum wage.

We must end the scandalous treatment of young lawyers

The legal profession is notorious for its lack of a support system – and it is would-be lawyers who are bearing the brunt, says Felix

QASA, the levelling scheme

Another year, another disappointment for solicitor advocates as none of the applicants for silk made the grade.

Regulators at loggerheads over QASA

The Bar Standards Board has hit out at “last-minute” proposals from the SRA, which “may allow judicial evaluation to be bypassed” in the new quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates (QASA).

Baroness Deech hits back after Moses LJ savages QASA

Too expensive to recruit 'an army of assessors'