SRA Handbook

CPD requirements upon return to part-time legal practice or employment following a suspension at any time from the end of your first CPD year or onwards

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Regulation 15: CPD requirements upon return to part-time legal practice or employment following a suspension at any time from the end of your first CPD year or onwards

15.1

If you have suspended the requirements at any time from the end of your first CPD year or onwards, and you return to work part-time, you will be required to complete one hour of CPD per year, for every two hours worked weekly.

15.2

If you return to part-time legal practice or employment after 1 March you should calculate your annual CPD requirement based on the number of hours worked per week, and undertake one-eighth of the annual requirement for each complete month from the date of your return to the end of that CPD year.

Guidance note: For example,

(i)

if you work 20 hours a week you are required to undertake 10 hours of CPD per CPD year.

(ii)

if you return to work on 1 April, and you are working 20 hours a week, you would be required to undertake eight and three quarter hours of CPD up until the end of the CPD year.