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Crown Prosecution Service: Legal Trainees

Thursday 30 March 2023 · 2 questions

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Answered 0 Partly answered 2 Not answered 0

Key points

  • The CPS runs an award-winning and highly competitive legal training scheme since 2012.
  • The CPS has extended its postgraduate qualification requirements to include new solicitors qualification examinations.
  • The aim is to encourage a more diverse background of people to consider the law as a career.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Stephen Metcalfe Con
Justice & Courts
Context

The question stems from the need for an increase in legal trainees within the Crown Prosecution Service.

Question

What steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to increase its number of legal trainees. The CPS has run a highly competitive and award-winning training scheme since 2012, but there is a call for more trainees.

Answer from Michael Tomlinson

The CPS runs an award-winning and highly competitive legal training scheme, which has seen hundreds of trainees undertake a training contract and/or pupillage across England and Wales with the CPS since 2012.

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Not addressed: Steps to increase number of legal trainees

How: Highly Competitive And Award-Winning

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Q2 Stephen Metcalfe Con
Women & Equalities
Context

This question builds on the previous one, focusing on increasing diversity among legal trainees within the Crown Prosecution Service.

Question

I thank my hon. and learned Friend for his answer. Building on that, can he tell the House what steps he is taking to encourage people from a more diverse background to consider the law as a career? The CPS has extended its postgraduate qualification requirements to include new solicitors qualification examinations, which opens up the career to a more diverse audience.

Answer from Michael Tomlinson

I am very grateful indeed to my hon. Friend for raising this important issue. The CPS has extended its postgraduate qualification requirements to include new solicitors qualification examinations, which opens up the career to a more diverse audience. Madam Deputy Speaker, you will be pleased to know that for the last three years the CPS was ranked No. 1 in the Universum rankings as a highly attractive employer to law students.

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Not addressed: Steps specifically addressing diversity

How: Ranked No. 1

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