Report into Quality Assurance for Advocates delivery

16 March 2011

The LSB has today released a report commissioned from Human Assets into issues concerned with the delivery of the Quality Assurance for Advocates scheme. The findings will contribute to the work of the Joint Advocacy Group (JAG) in shaping the implementation of the Quality Assurance for Advocates (criminal) programme and the LSB’s consideration of any application to change regulatory arrangements.

The project is designed to strengthen regulatory safeguards by ensuring minimum quality standards in some areas of the market – starting with criminal advocacy. The quality assurance framework will act as a common assessment framework for advocacy delivered by practitioners from across the professions. Human Assets’ report has a major focus on the robustness of assessment methods, including how they relate to complex specialisms and how they might be evaluated. The report also looks at how quality assurance might link into the wider framework for the education and training of lawyers.