A guide to embedding legal ethics education across the four mandatory CPD subject streams
If you are a lawyer subject to a supervised legal practice condition you can be supervised remotely, however different rules may apply.
If you are a supervised lawyer and your supervisor is employed by a different entity, we must approve a remote supervision arrangement before you start this supervision. The onus is on the supervised lawyer to apply to us for that approval first.
When planning a remote supervision arrangement, you must consider:
We will consider whether the proposed remote supervision arrangement is adequate and in line with our Supervised Legal Practice Policy.
If we approve your remote supervision arrangement, we strongly recommend that all of your engagement letters to clients clearly state that you’re engaging in supervised legal practice and include your supervisor’s contact details.
Please provide us with a remote supervision proposal, setting out the supervision that will be provided. The proposal should confirm the supervisor will have authority in respect of all legal work performed and will be able to direct, amend, override or intervene. You should demonstrate in your application how you will address any administrative obstacles.
You can access a template remote supervision proposal here.
Please send your proposal to us via the lawyer enquiry form, selecting 'Supervised legal practice' as the category.
As remote working has become commonplace, a remote supervision arrangement is no longer required to be approved by the Board where you and your supervisor work for the same entity, but you work remotely. We still encouraged supervised lawyers to enter into an agreed remote supervision plan with their supervisor, however, this is not a requirement and we do not need to review a copy of the supervision plan.
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