Plans for the introduction of the “Quality Assured Scheme for Advocates,” generally pronounced “quasar” like the incomprehensible heavenly body, are coming under sustained attack from both solicitors and barristers. In the latest broadside the highly influential Andrew Keogh, editor of Crimeline, has called for the scheme to be delayed until at the earliest 2015.
Like so many legal questions, it is not an issue that immediately sets the pulse racing for those not directly affected. But it is, in fact, something that – in combination with associated changes – threatens to destroy both branches of the legal profession as we know them. Continue reading “Growing doubts about QASA”