Are solicitors required to attend any compulsory CPD courses?
• Attendance at compulsory courses only applies to newly qualified solicitors. Solicitors in their first full CPD year are required to attend the Client Care and Professional Standards and Financial and Business Skills modules of the Professional Skills Course (PSC). Exemptions may be claimed by the following: • those who have attended the relevant modules of the PSC prior to admission, • those who qualified by attending a Legal Practice Course (LPC) and completing all modules of the PSC, • those who transferred from another jurisdiction and who passed the Professional Conduct and Accounts paper of the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT), • solicitors transferring from Scotland via QLTT. Solicitors are not required to write in for confirmation where the above applies. All other solicitors are required to attend the two PSC modules by the end of their first CPD year. CPD credit may be claimed for attending the modules after admission. Solicitors are also required to attend the compul
