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Qualifying Examination: Consultation responses  \nApril 2017  \nContents  \nResponses  \nAbbe Brown  \nAccutrainee Limited  \nAGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services) Legal Task Group Alex LI  \nAmi Amin Anthony Martin Ashley Lawson  \nAspiring Solicitors Junior Advisory Board Association of Law Teachers  \nBarry Baines Behnam Balalimood Bell & Buxton LLP  \nBernard George  \nBerwin Leighton Paisner Bharat Mankad Birmingham City University  \nBirmingham Law Society BPP University  \nBristol Junior Lawyers Division  \nBristol Law Society Burges Salmon LLP  \nCardiff and District Law Society Charlotte Lucy Wildig Christina Perry  \nChristina Severn CILEx  \nCindy Namal Perera  \nCity Law School-University of London City of London Law Society  \nClinical Legal Education Organisation Clyde & Co LLP  \nCommittee of Heads of UK Law Schools Criminal Law Solicitors' Association  \nDechert LLPDLA Piper Edward Iredale  \nElizabeth Gillow Eric Golding  \nFour Law Subject Associations: the Socio-Legal Studies Association,the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, the Association of Law Teachersand the Society of Legal Scholars Francesco del Balzo  \nFresh Professional Development Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP George Russell  \nGhulam Mustafa Government Legal Service Hassan Zainab  \nHogan Lovells International LLP Holman Fenwick Willan  \nHull Incorporated Law Society Ian Williams  \nJackie Murphy Jenny Mary Knox Jessica Isabel Austen Jill Phillips  \nJodi Belinda Halkier  \nJunior Lawyers Division for Cardiff and South East Wales Kaplan  \nKatie Jukes Kayleigh Ann Fantoni Kent Law Society Kimberly Gamez  \nKimberly Gamez Kyrakides Klearachos Laura Richards  \nLauren Van Buren Law Centres Network  \nLawyers with Disabilities Division of the Law Society of England and Wales  \nLEAPS Research Group Leeds Beckett University Leeds Law Society  \nLegal Education & Training Group Legal Services Consumer Panel Linklaters  \nLiverpool John Moores University  \nLiverpool Law Society  \nLondon Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association (LCCSA)  \nLondon South Bank University Lucy Burrows  \nManchester Law Society Manchester Metropolitan University Marcos Roper  \nMarriott Harrison LLP Mary Bonsor  \nMerseyside Junior Lawyers Division Michael Awala  \nMichael Jefferson  \nMichael Nathan  \nMichael Rutstein  \nMiller, Warwick and Partners LLP Monmouthshire Incorporated Law Society Morrish Solicitors LLP  \nNataliya Bondarets Nir Chanoch Noor Miah  \nNorth Yorkshire Law Nottinghamshire Law Society Nottingham Trent University Oxford University  \nPaul Catley  \nPaul Garforth Kidd  \nPaul Nicholas Downing Peter Gordon Collier Peter William Jordan Phoebe Shi Yi Tan Queen's University Belfast Rachael Kirkup  \nRaynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP  \nReading University Rebecca Yates Riverview Law Rosemary Cantwell Scott Silbereis  \nSean Gerard Mac Cann Seema Laura Maybud  \nShearman & Sterling (London) LLP Sheffield and District Law Society Singletons  \nSociety of Asian Lawyers Society of Legal Scholars Socio-Legal Studies Association Sonal Babre  \nSouth London Law Society Stephen Cutter  \nStewarts Law LLP  \nStudent Law Think Tank-Northumbria University The Law Society-Junior Lawyers Division The Law Society of England & Wales  \nThe Law Society of Scotland The Legal Education Foundation The Yorkshire Union of Law Societies Tobias John Latham  \nTony King Tracy Savage  \nTravers Smith Tricia Chatterton  \nTunbridge Wells Tonbridge and District Law Society University of Cardiff  \nUniversity of Bristol  \nUniversity of Dundee  \nUniversity of Exeter  \nUniversity of Kent  \nUniversity of Law  \nUniversity of Leeds  \nUniversity of Leicester  \nUniversity of Lincoln  \nUniversity of Nottingham  \nUniversity of Sheffield  \nUniversity of Southampton  \nUniversity of Sunderland University of the West of England University of Warwick  \nUniversity of 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