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Lynne Squires, head of business development at CILEx, highlights the extensive range of business solutions and services for members’ employers.
CILEx regularly engages with our members’ employers, offering advice and guidance regarding, among other things, staff recruitment and training and development, in addition to promoting the skills and competence of our members. We welcome the opportunity to talk with employers at any time, and encourage members to introduce their colleagues to us.
We know from employer research, member feedback and recruitment advertising that an increasing number of employers have responded positively to work that has already taken place to encourage greater parity and recognition for CILEx members. Many organisations have introduced employment practices which not only promote wider access to the profession, but also offer parity of opportunity, status and remuneration for CILExquali fied staff.
However, we recognise that this is not the case across the entire sector, and will continue to work to encourage change and promote best practice. We have developed a dedicated area of the CILEx website to help develop employers’ knowledge and understanding of CILEx membership and qualification pathways. This can be found at: www.cilex.org.uk/employers
As the legal sector develops, organisations are under constant pressure to ensure that their business practices are economic and efficient, and offer cost-e ffective solutions to their clients. We are being told increasingly that professional development decisions, whether they are linked to recruitment decisions, professional development or training, are based wholly on whether there is a satisfactory business case for the decision.
We encourage our members to contact us, so that we can work with them to make sure that any approach which they make to current - or future - employers regarding their employment, training or professional development focuses on a business-case approach.
We encourage members to investigate fully the wealth of resources available to them from CILEx. In addition to the one-to-one support that we offer through, for example, our membership contact centre team, practice advice and branch officers, and the employer solutions team, CILEx also introduced a new member benefit, the career development resource ‘myCareer’, in 2017.
Whether seeking additional business or networking skills to fill gaps in experience or knowledge, seeking selfdevelopment and self-improvement modules, or simply seeking guidance on how to approach and manage a pay negotiation discussion, members should be aware that these topics, and many more, are available to them 24/7, via their myCILEx account, at no extra cost.
REMOTE WORKER
Fellow of CILEx with current practising certificate recently moved to Crete seeks work online. My specialism is civil litigation including defendant personal injury litigation, property damage claims and debt collection. I have considerable experience of remote working, use of a case handling system and MCOL and am also prepared to undertake research, proof reading and any other similar work.
To contact me to discuss further please email: drawwater@hotmail.co.uk
6 August 1922–17 December 2017
Ronald Victor Day was born, in Luton in 1922. Ron left school at 14, and chose a career in the law. His first job was as a junior clerk with Austin & Carnley; however, his career progress was interrupted by the onset of the second world war.
After being demobbed from the RAF, Ron was able to rejoin Austin & Carnley, working his way up to Legal Executive specialising in property conveyancing.
Ron progressed his career by joining a London firm, Lawrence Graham Solicitors in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1955, and a few months later the fledgling family moved to west London.
In around 1965, Ron joined Rubinstein Nash & Co at 6 Raymond Buildings, Gray’s Inn. That firm amalgamated and became Rubinstein Callingham in 1976. Ron spent the rest of his career in Gray’s Inn and retired in 1988.
Ron was by this time a Senior Legal Executive, and was very well thought of by his colleagues and friends. He worked for a number of high-pro file corporate clients, including the Royal Opera House (acting on the redevelopment of the opera house) and National Westminster Bank in substantial property transactions; in addition, he had a great many individual clients for whom he acted. All greatly appreciated his advice and his excellent handling of difficult transactions.
CORRECTION
In ‘Social Housing Law post-Grenfell ’ (2017) December CILExJ pp14–16 and p18, Caroline Hunter and Jed Meers stated that there were no mandatory grounds for secure tenancies. That is incorrect - the Housing Act 1985 was amended, in 2014, to add one mandatory ground for serious antisocial behaviour. The ground in section 84A gives the right to an internal review, and the court must also consider any Human Rights Act 1998 defences.