The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved an application from CILEx Regulation Limited (CRL) to allow legal executives to obtain standalone litigation practice rights. This decision is an important step towards ensuring that legal professionals impacted by the Mazur judgment can obtain the relevant authorisation practice rights in a timely manner. It will also allow others who wish to qualify in this area a dedicated route to authorisation.
This decision allows CRL to uncouple litigation and advocacy rights which until now had to be obtained concurrently. The qualification requirements for obtaining authorisation from CRL for the conduct of litigation remain the same, which means there will be no reduction in standards among providers of the reserved legal activity of conducting litigation.
The LSB has published the decision notice on its website.