CPS Legal Trainee Scheme - 2012 Relaunch
The CPS recently announced the relaunch of its Legal Trainee Scheme (LTS), offering 15 pupillages or training contracts for those seeking to complete their legal training and qualify as fully practicing lawyers.
The recruitment process opened on 19 April 2012 to those prospective candidates who had already completed their vocational training or were due to complete it in the 2011/12 academic year, enabling them to commence pupillage or a training contract in October 2012. The process closed for applications on 9 May 2012.
Full details can be found in the candidate guidance pack accessed here. In order to fully ascertain what is expected, we strongly advised all candidates to read the guidance before entering the recruitment process and completing the on-line application form accessed here.
For an insight into what the CPS LTS can lead to, please read the profile from one of our former Legal Trainees, Senior Crown Prosecutor Salma Yousef.
Please note the recruitment process is now closed for applications.
A second round of further recruitment is scheduled to begin in October 2012. Further details will be published soon.
