Catalogue description Records of the Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was established in accordance with the terms of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 with the general duty of assisting in the maintenance and development of standards in the education, training and conduct of those offering legal services. Its specific functions are: to keep under review the education and training of those who offer to provide legal services; to consider the need for continuing education and training for them and the form it should take; to consider the steps which professional and other bodies should take to ensure that their members benefit from such continuing education and training and to consider applications from bodies wishing to grant their members rights of audience in the courts or rights to conduct litigation.

The Chairman and fourteen members are appointed by the Lord Chancellor. The Chairman is either a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary or a Supreme Court judge. Of the fourteen others, two are practising barristers, two practising solicitors and two persons with experience of teaching law. The remainder are expected to have relevant experience or knowledge.