Legal Advisor in Training

The purpose of the role is to be trained as a Legal Adviser to be able to represent the Justices’ Clerk as Legal Adviser to Magistrates and District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) in accordance with The Courts Act, 2003, the Justices’ Clerks Rules, Practice Directions and protocols.

A candidate for this post must be legally qualified having completed their academic stage of training to qualify as a solicitor or barrister in accordance with The Assistants to Justices’ Clerks (Amendment) Regulations 2007, and will have completed the vocational stage of training as a Solicitor or Barrister. This means that the role holder must have completed the SRA training contract for solicitor or pupillage for barristers.