In a submission on 9 January, the CLLS slammed the SRA for failing to make any significant improvements to its proposed ‘super exam’ for aspiring solicitors. In particularly, the CLLS has hit back at the SRA’s proposed use of multiple-choice questions as the main tool for testing legal knowledge in the exam. ‘Lawyers need to be able to do more than identify or worse, guess a correct answer swiftly,’ said the submission, ‘They need to have the analytical skills developed in a legal context to develop a sustained, persuasive argument from first principles and then to test and challenge their own approach by considering case law and legislation.’ The CLLS, which represents around 17,000 City lawyers, also remains unconvinced that the standard of the examination will be sufficiently high. The SRA’s second consultation of the proposal closed yesterday, with the first consultation having received more than 200 responses.

Sources: Law Gazette; Legal Business