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SQE is a disaster in the making. Currently we have a pinch point at the training contract stage: people complete the LPC, and only then find that they can't get a training contract. SQE will:

1. Move the pinch point to post-SQE, so people complete the exams and the work experience; however useless the latter might actually be, and how poor the supervision is; and

2. Create an entire cohort of 'second-class solicitors' who have not - as at present - been selected by firms for jobs which require solicitors, and then nurtured through training contracts at those firms' expense. Instead, candidates will jump through some arbitrary hoops, and get a tick from the regulator, giving them the same title as proper solicitors. Proper solicitors will still be those who have trained at established firms, with continuity of both work and supervision.

The worst thing is that the people who the SRA purport to be assisting - those currently failing to enter the profession - are simply going to have their hopes raised, and time squandered, and then find themselves little more employable than their peers are at present.

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