Candidates will be required to complete an application form, to include a “self assessment”, allowing the candidate to provide his or her own evidence against published competences. The form will also require candidates to disclose criminal convictions or findings of professional misconduct. The Selection Panel takes the view that under [...]
The scheme will be administered by its own Secretariat, with its own premises, independently of the DCA, the Bar Council and the Law Society.
There will be no initial filter. References will be sought on all candidates.
The list of candidates will go, confidentially, to the senior member of staff with responsibility for professional conduct at each of the professional bodies.
This will be to ensure any findings, or pending complaints, of misconduct are identified.
Where a finding or complaint had not been identified or addressed by the candidate [...]
Four references will be taken in writing.
Candidates will be required to list 12 judges in front of whom they have appeared substantively in cases of substance, complexity or particular difficulty or sensitivity over the last 2 years (including but not limited to High Court and above, Circuit Judges, deputy High Court [...]
Three references will be taken in writing.
Candidates will be required to identify 6 practitioners by whom they have been led (or, if applicable, whom they have led) or against whom they have appeared, in cases of substance, complexity or particular difficulty or sensitivity over the last 3 years (or outside that 3 [...]
Two references will normally be taken.
Candidates will be required to identify 6 individuals who have been (in their own right or on behalf of their firm or employer) professional clients, clients or client proxies, in cases of substance, complexity or particular difficulty or sensitivity over the last 3 years (or outside [...]
Before any decision to interview, it will be open to the Selection Panel members (or senior members of the Secretariat under their direction) to approach referees where on the face of it the reference appears to be lacking in evidence.
Each application, with the self-assessment and all references, will be read by 2 Selection Panel members (one lay; one professional) in preparation for interview. Any application which appears to the Panel members on the information available not to demonstrate the competencies sufficiently to make them at that stage a credible [...]
The Selection Panel will be independent, will act in the service of the public interest, will include “lay” (non-lawyer) membership and must command respect.
The Selection Panel will consist of a minimum of 9 members, including a retired senior judge, senior lawyers, (among whom there should be both barristers and solicitors), and [...]
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