What do the CPD questions on the practising certificate application form mean?
• When making an application for a practising certificate, individuals are asked to confirm whether or not they have complied with the CPD requirements during the past full CPD year. For example, when you are applying for a practising certificate in 2004, the question relates to your CPD position as at 31 October 2003. Therefore, please note the following: • Newly qualified solicitors and registered European lawyers (RELs) who are making an application for the first time will not have completed a full CPD year, and cannot indicate their compliance or otherwise. The “not applicable” box on the form should be ticked. • Solicitors and RELs who are subject to the requirement and were out of practice during the whole of the CPD year, or at the end of the year, are entitled to a suspension of the requirements, and they should indicate that they suspended the requirements by ticking the “not applicable” box on the form. Did this answer your question?
