Council of Legal Education

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The Council of Legal Education (CLE, German  Council for Legal Education ) was a British supervisory authority of the Inns of Court was created around the legal education of barristers to monitor (lawyers) in England and Wales and improve.

history

The council was founded in 1852 by the Inns of Court and originally consisted of eight members, headed by Richard Bethell . Each inn had two members. The council oversaw the training of students at the Inns of Court and initially established five professorships. The professors gave lectures to the students in the inns and the students had to have attended a certain number of lectures in order to be admitted to the bar (called to the bar). In 1872 the membership of the council was increased to twenty and compulsory exams for admission were introduced. The creation of the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar in 1967 made the Council a subdivision of the same and representatives of the Bar Council were also appointed to the Council. In 1997 the council was dissolved and its duties were transferred to the Inns of Court School of Law . The Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust assumed its educational and teaching functions, and the General Council of the Bar assumed the regulatory function .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c IALS Library - Records of Legal Education ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Council of Legal Education Archive, University of London .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ials.sas.ac.uk