couldn’t agree more!!

Possible but unlikely.

How do you know their age? Does it say in the judgment? For all we know this person is a career changer.

Can confirm – this is excoriating stuff and definitely beyond the norm.

You know someone has lost the plot when they start using phrases like “woke brigade”

Please go outside and touch some grass.

PS – if you read the responses, they weren’t defending the SA in question but the validity of SAs as a route to qualification.

Exactly the reason why apprentices should be outlawed. An 18 year old who has never had to stand on their own two feet should not be let loose on the legal profession. The woke mob try and say otherwise, citing fictional examples and crying foul, but this point has yet to be adequately addressed.

If it wasn’t so sad, and disturbing, it would be funny to watch the woke brigade come out in defence of someone who couldn’t even be bothered to defend herself.

I doubt that it’s true about someone turning down a high ranking university for an apprenticeship – these things are easy to say online with zero proof. In the unlikely event it is true, I strongly question who has been advising that young person, and would hope that a proper investigation be undertaken to root out the culprit who should face criminal sanction for setting back the career prospects of a vulnerable person.

‘ “The claimant showed a complete and utter disregard to the Tribunal’s process..’

Those who have done work in the ET know that tribunals are known to flex compliance with rules or deadlines somewhat (within reason) and far more so where it is a litigant in person, which from the sounds of things, this person was.

It must therefore have been a whole new level of p*ss taking for a Judge to make that particular observation.

Raising the bar, this one.

Imagine, if that was their behaviour at a tribunal, what would their normal attitude have been on the apprenticeship, whilst at the firm and whilst studying? @Mishcon – how they did get taken on in the first place?!

No, you don’t.

Basically, FA and FO

So, so foolish. Now she’s likely to be hit with a costs award worth a year or two of university debt, for nothing.

Alan, I see you on every post about SAs and never said anything but you are completely ill-informed on the subject yet have the tenacity to comment uneducated opinions, at least have the moral fibre and hard work ethic to research the matter you are speaking about.

Apprentices do a degree while working 4 days a week on trainee-level tasks. Apprentices have the same level of training provided to trainee solicitors and as a trainee solicitor myself I am impressed, by the ones at my firm, hard work ethic and courage to enter the work world at 18. Furthermore, the recruitment process is extremely competitive and they undergo a long and thorough application process. One of the apprentices at my firm had offers from top UK universities (Durham Law!) and said the application process for the apprenticeship was far harder.

My law degree from a top RG university did not prepare me for my training contract and this is a common complaint from almost every graduate across every firm, it is the firm training that actually trains you for the job.

Hope this is helpful and I hope next time you don’t comment on matters you are wholly unqualified to comment on. End of story.

Hahahahaha you have to respect the boldness, really

Sounds like school pupil excuses for not having done homework and leaving everyone else to be responsible for the mess created.

SA needs to mature and learn from this experience. And to look at whether this is the right choice of career – this event will likely have dented their chances of qualifying now anyway!

Actions have consequences. You can’t start claims and not engage. If you ignore what you’re supposed to do, it will come back to bite you. You can’t have your head in the sand. This isn’t school anyway. That’s the lesson the SA needs sadly.

Massive overgeneralisation that all people aspiring to be solicitor apprentices would behave in that way, or indeed that people who happen to have a degree wouldn’t! You can easily get a degree in this country without “moral fibre” and with varying degrees of hard work.

Having the moral fibre and hard work ethic to get a degree should be the bare minimum to be a lawyer, end of story.