David Dixon
- Opinion
The late Andrew Hopper QC
Andrew was a resolute, resourceful, committed and highly respected defender of solicitors facing disciplinary action.
- Feature
Legal ‘super-exam’: too good to be true
The SRA’s proposed central assessment fails to resolve every issue which persuaded the regulator to recommend it.
- News
David defeats Goliath
by David Dixon, a senior lecturer at Cardiff Law School who teaches on the LPC and GDL
- News
At the end of the line: is the solicitors' profession full?
Since 1960, when 19,069 solicitors held practising certificates (PCs), the number of solicitors with PCs rose by 2,000 a year on average to 117,862 by the end of July 2010.
- News
Future LPC students need to be better informed about career prospects
In your article ‘LPC aptitude test risks "clones"’, you quote Kevin Poulter of the Junior Lawyers Division as stating that ‘there are between 10,000 and 20,000 LPC graduates currently looking for training contracts’. This almost certainly overestimates alarmingly the oversupply of LPC graduates. No one knows how many LPC graduates ...