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Fe1 exam reform

  • 07-09-2018 10:28am
    #1
    shaunadennyham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭


    Hi there’s a rumour flying around that the law society are going to publish proposals on reforming the FE1s, can anyone confirm this ?


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  • #2
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    shaunadennyham wrote: »
    Hi there’s a rumour flying around that the law society are going to publish proposals on reforming the FE1s, can anyone confirm this ?


    https://www.lawsociety.ie/


  • #3
    shaunadennyham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭shaunadennyham


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    https://www.lawsociety.ie/

    Yes but I’m just wondering if anyone else has heard this or if it’s just a wild rumour ? /Mod deletion/


  • #4
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Its a rumour.

    If you want to know the truth contact the law society and ask them

    Its not a trade secret


  • #5
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    The Legal Services Regulatory Authority has published one of it's statutory reports in to the education and training of legal practitioners.

    From a quick skim, a couple of items that caught my eye were:
    • The pass rates for each FE-1 exam between March 2015 and October 2017 are given. (Page 55)
    • Issues of duplication of exams for law graduates are raised
    • Quite importantly, concerns have been raised by a "large firm" relating to the cost of exams. If there's one body the Law Society listen to it's the large firms.
    • Perceived inconsistency in the marking of the exams (which may be linked to the aforementioned filthy lucre).
    • The large firm also pointed out that they don't rate FE-1 results as a recruitment metric.
    No strong recommendations from what I can see and no one in the press seemed to run with it as the report was made in September so expect the status quo to persist.


  • #6
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,275 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    I'm not a solicitor/legal professional but I am considering a return to college to undertake a legal degree.

    From my perspective, outside the profession it is an odd qualification path.
    Insofar as I can undertake practically any undergraduate degree and then enter the profession via the FE1's and apprenticeship route.
    It does seem to appear that taking a law degree is fairly pointless if it doesn't allow any exemptions or consideration of the relevant degree?

    I do understand that the professional body needs to strike a balance between ensuring that its membership is suitably qualified and ensuring that its reputation and standards are protected, but is there a place for someone undertaking a 4yr degree and completing that satisfactorily to their awarding institions/QQI standards and there being unable for any reason, to pass the FE1's within the current framework?


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