26TH NOVEMBER 2008
JANUARY 2009 PROGRAMME
Bookings have now been confirmed for the delivery of the programme from 13th to 23rd January 2009 at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow. The whole programme, including core modules and elective modules shall be delivered within those dates. The only elective modules to be delivered shall be litigation and chamber practice. However, more or less the whole of the former elective module of family law shall be contained within the programme. Family law in practice is, of course, of enormous importance both to litigators and to conveyancers.
MAY/JUNE 2009 PROGRAMME
We are now proposing to deliver the programme, at Glasgow Caledonian University, from 12th May to 22nd May 2009 but these dates are not yet confirmed. Any trainees or trainers involved in the programme should contact the course convener to advise as to suitability or unsuitability of these dates.
SEPTEMBER 2009 PROGRAMME
We are tentatively looking at 1st to 11th September 2009 and, again, any trainees or trainers prospectively to be involved in this programme should advise the convener as to the suitability or unsuitability of these dates.
NORTH EAST SCOTLAND
We have received some enquiries as to the possibility of transferring the delivery of our programme to the North East of Scotland to take in the Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen area. The Society would be very willing to consider a project along these lines but would require specific notes of interest from prospective trainees seeking to take the programme and from prospective trainers, willing and able to participate in the delivery of the programme. We also require to establish the most suitable location for such a programme, be it Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen or elsewhere. Notes of interest and suggested locations are accordingly invited. Watch this page for news of further developments.
19th September 2008.
The September 2008 delivery of the programme has now been completed and we are taking names for the programme to be delivered in January (13th -23rd), May/June and September 2009. The January programme is about half filled and we now regularly receive last minute applications which we cannot accept and you are advised to apply as far in advance as possible. Also, we correspond with trainees and their firms prior to the programme with a view to establishing particular problem areas that might be addressed in the PCC and you lose the benefit of that interaction if you come along at the last minute. Also, an early application provides time for the funding to be put in place in good time and, from experience, this avoids problems also.
8th May 2008. All course booklets and timetables have now been issued for the programme commencing 12th May 2008 and trainee solicitors taking the course are asked to attend at room W308 in the West (or Hamish Wood) Building at Glasgow Caledonian University on Monday morning 12th May at 9am.
We are now taking applications for programmes running from 2nd to 12th September 2008 and also from 13th to 23rd January 2009.
Any solicitors or trainee solicitors who may have an interest in becoming part of the Society's training initiative or in attending our PCC programme or in contributing to the current debate as to future arrangements for the education and training of new members of our profession should contact the secretary at secretary@slas.co.uk
!st April 2008 We still have a few places on the course for 12 to 22nd May 2008 to be delivered at Glasgow Caledonial University with sessions also at the Royal Faculty of Procurators and at Glasgow Sheriff Court and at Registers of Scotland. You will find an application form which can be downloaded from this page, receipt of which with your remittance of £100 booking fee shall secure your place on the course, subject to availability. One advantage of this course is that it combines the whole core and elective requirements of the Law Society into one discrete programme which keeps to the minimum both the costs of the course and the dispruption of your main training programme, the traineeship itself.
The current status of the PCC is that we are taking names for the May 2008 delivery in Glasgow and we are working on deliveries for September 2008 in Glasgow and, possibly, Dundee. All notes of interest should be addressed to the Secretary, Scottish Law AGents Society, 166 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 2LW, telephone 0141 332 3536, fax
0141 353 3819 email secretary@slas.co.uk.
The May 008 programme runs from 12th to 22nd May and shall be convened mainly at Glasgow Caledonian University but with modules also at The Royal Faculty of Procurators of Glasgow at Nelson Mandela Place and also at Glasgow Sheriff Court and at Registers of Scotland at Hanover House. For contact details, see above.
LAW SOCIETY CONSULTATION ON LEGAL TRAINING
The Law Society has extended the period for consultation upon the future of pre-qualification legal education and training until 30th April 2008.
7th April 2008 All trainees taking the PCC in May this year should receive a strategic letter within a week from this date, one of the objectives of which is to set up an email group for further communications. If you have not received your letter by 16th April you should contact the secretary as above. In the meantime you should be accumulating or even submitting "problem" situations from your daily practice for consideration during the PCC.
18th February 2008. We shall not be running a PCC in Dundee this June but we now have a confirmed arrangement to deliver the course in Glasgow from 12th to 22nd May. This course is filling up quickly and if you wish to book a place you should click on - Application Form - and submit your aplication as soon as you can
