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Leading SRA Figure Backs Legal Apprenticeships

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Billy Sexton, Editor, AllAboutLaw.co.uk

Charles Plant, the chair of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board, claims he is confident about the future of the legal profession following the introduction of legal apprenticeships.

Plant spoke at the British Legal Awards last week and is set to step down on 31 December. He said, “Looking ahead, it is, I think, the widening of access through the introduction of apprenticeships that gives me real confidence in the future of our profession.”

Plant’s appraisal of legal apprenticeships comes after the Labour Party came out in favour of alternative routes to qualification.

Plant joined Herbert Smith & Co in 1967, where he was a litigation practitioner for nearly 40 years. He has been chair of the SRA board for the past five years. He will be succeeded by Enid Rowlands, UK chair of charity Victim Support and the SRA’s first non-lawyer chair. 

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