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<p>The legal services sector in England and Wales is independent of Government, and
as such, the Government does not have a role in setting or approving the framework
for admission into the legal profession.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2018, the Legal Services
Board (LSB) approved a rule change application made by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
(SRA). This application laid out a framework upon which the SRA could seek to introduce
new requirements for trainee solicitors to pass a centralised Solicitors Qualifying
Exam before being admitted into the profession. However, the application only established
the framework. The SRA will need to submit another rule change application to LSB
in order to implement it.</p><p> </p><p>In its March 2018 decision notice, the LSB
set out the substantive issues that it had not been able to fully assess and would
need to evaluate before it approved any further application from the SRA seeking to
implementing the framework. This included assessing the full costs of the Solicitors
Qualifying Exam and accessibility of assessments.</p>
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