The minister for legal services has pledged to chartered legal executives that “we’ll do all that we can” to help them move past the Mazur ruling.

She also said the rest of the legal profession could learn from the way CILEX has opened the door to those from under-represented groups.

Speaking at last week’s CILEX member conference in Birmingham, Ms Sackman – who is minister of state for courts and legal services at the Ministry of Justice – acknowledged the uncertainty and anxiety caused by the Mazur judgment.

While stressing that legal regulators are rightly independent of government, she went on: “I want you to know that I take the issue incredibly seriously… We’ll do all that we can to move past it so that you can continue to thrive.”

That was why she convened an urgent meeting last

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