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We live in difficult and interesting times.I talk to Paul Marsh about a range of topics including his thoughts on the recession, how the law society is helping solicitors during these difficult days, the recent rise of nearly 10 per cent in fees for the Legal Practice Course by three London providers - BPP, the College of Law and Kaplan.and his thoughts on the future of the profession after the recession.

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Today I am talking to members of the the LPC Team at Nottingham Trent University Bob White Course director and his colleagues, Jane Ching and Fiona Cunningham. Nottingham Law School runs one of the leading LPC courses in the country and is the only law school to have an unbroken record of Excellent rating (or top ratings under the new rating scheme) in the the country.

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Lawcast 115: Dr Paul Mason on the Innocence Network UK

Today I’m talking to Dr Paul Mason Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. He is Chair of the UK Innocence Network Committee and co-ordinates the Cardiff Nexus Innocence Project. He also runs the Prison Media Monitoring Unit and edited [jc2m] Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture 2004-6.Today we are going to talk about the Innocence Network, how it works, who is involved and what benefits it brings to client and all involved.

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John Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs) Blog

Lawcast 113: Professor John Flood on the rise in fees for the Legal Practice Course

Today I am talking to Professor John Flood.  we’re going to be examining the rising cost of legal education in the light of the recent decision by three London Law Schools, BPP, The College of Law and Kaplan, to put their fees for the legal practice course up by nearly ten per cent at a time when the profession and the country generally is experiencing the most severe recession since the 1930s.

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Today I am talking to Solicitor Andrew Johnson of Walker Morris in Leeds about the Office of the Independent Adjudicator and the astonishing statistic that over 10% of student complaints referred to the OIA are brought by law students.

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Podcast 76: Wood Report on BVC - City Law School response
Today I am talking to Stuart Sime, Barrister and Director of the BVC at The City Law School (Inns of Court School of Law) about his view of The Wood Report. We discuss the content of the proposed Bar Professional Training Course and the way The City Law School approaches the training of bar students.

Podcast 75: Carl Gardner on the Max Mosley judgment, privacy and exemplary damages

Podcast 74: Scott Vine on legal information technology

Podcast 73: Stephen Mason, Barrister - Electronic signatures

Podcast 72: The Wood Report on the changes to the BVC - College of Law response with Richard de Friend, Director Bloomsbury Centre

Podcast 71: Wood Report - The proposed changes to the BVC
Today I am talking to Jon McLeod, Chairman, Public Affairs – Weber Shandwick who acted for the Bar Standards Board in the recent report of the Working Group in relation to Review of The Bar Vocational Course.
Jon McLeod went into public affairs in 1994, having spent six years in financial and legal journalism.

Podcast 52: Mark Rawlinson, partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
The Freshfields Interview panel - How it works - The interview process - What Freshfields is looking for - Universities Freshfields recruits from - Training opportunities at Freshfields - Advice for people who may wish to apply to Freshfields

Podcast 51: Nigel Savage, CEO, College of Law on the rising cost of legal education.
BPP Law School has put LPC fees up by 10% to £11,550. Is this the biggest smash and grab raid since The Great Train Robbery?

Podcast 50: Timothy Dutton QC, Chairman of The Bar Council.
We discuss the likely impact of the Legal Services Act 2007 on the future of The Bar - Direct Access - VHCC contracts - Lord Neugerger and the BVC - and Timothy Dutton's vision for his year as Chairman of The Bar

Podcast 20: Phil Knott, CEO, Nottingham Law School, on the Nottingham Law School LPC

Podcast 16: Nigel Savage, CEO, The College of Law on legal education and diversity…

Podcast 11: Legal Scribbles on preparing for exams and technique

Podcast 60: Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at The University of Buckingham and a former Chairman of the University of London’s academic council

Professor Alderman wrote a fascinating article in The Times on 18th June A grotesque bidding game is undermining university standards - confronting the issue of degree inflation, the pressure on lecturers to mark examinations leniently and the issue of plagiarism.

Professor Alderman stated in The Times: “Academic standards are in decline in many British universities. Students who would once have been failed their degrees pass, and students who would once have been awarded respectable lower seconds are now awarded upper seconds and even firsts."

I ask Geoffrey Alderman about the evidence for his statement about declining standards. We also discuss plagiarism, cheating and the rise of essay writing services. For anyone involved in legal or other education, Professor Alderman's discussion with me is well worth listening to. His views are robust, direct and to the point - refreshingly so

Podcast 59: Degree inflation with Norman Baird

Podcast 47: Julie Brannan, OXILP on the LPC

Podcast 43: Nigel Savage on why The College of Law is taking issue with the SRA

Podcast 42: Professor Gary Slapper, author, columnist and academic. Professor Gary Slapper, is Professor of Law, and Director of the Centre for Law at The Open University

Podcast 33: Simon Myerson QC on Pupillage and how to get it.

Podcast 31: Noel Inge, CEO of ILEX, on the route to practice through ILEX…

Podcast 28: Richard de Friend, College of Law, Director of The CofL centre in Bloomsbury, London…

Podcast 27: Giles Proctor, CEO, Nottingham-Kaplan on the new London law school et al…

Podcast 26: Peter Crisp, Dean of BPP Law School on BBP’s new power to award degrees…

Podcast 25: Nigel Savage, CEO, College of Law on the new degree awarding powers given to The College of Law and BPP…