THE University of Central Lancashire's legal studies division has been contracted to provide professional qualification training to court clerks, the legal advisers in magistrates' courts.
The requirement is that all court clerks must be professionally qualified to the level of a barrister or solicitor by the year 2008.
The Lord Chancellor's Department invited several institutions to submit tenders for the programme and the Preston university was successful in bidding for the region. Professor Richard Taylor, head of UCLa's legal studies department, said: "The fact that we've been selected as the provider for these professional qualifications in the northern region is another indication of the quality of our courses."
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