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All legal services professionals should be in a position to demonstrate their competence, irrespective of whether the work falls in a reserved activity category, a senior academic has said. Talking at the LETR Symposium, Professor Julia Black from LSE argued that activity-based regulation needn’t be inextricably linked to individual qualifications or titles. Full story - Solicitors Journal
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