Civil Service Reviewer

This paper notes the emergence of peer review as a means of quality assurance regarding the work of legal professionals. The peer review system used for public funding in England and Wales and Scotland has focused on a range of factors including inputs, structure, process and outcomes. The paper reviews different approaches to assessment, showing up the difficulties of direct observation, model clients, assessment of the management of cases and approaches which look at outcomes only in statistical terms. Specific criteria need to be generated for evaluating quality of performance and they have to be agreed by the professional groups concerned as an accurate representation of the necessary work. The paper goes on to discuss the optimum amount of such criteria, systems for assessment on a Likert scale and approaches in order to maintain consistency. The article then compares peer review in Scotland with England and Wales. The experience of the peer review studies in England and Scotland suggest that peer review based on files, an agreed set of criteria and trained reviewers can deliver an effective quality assurance programme.

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Self-made reviewer in legal profession for our midterm exam. I included the cases related to the topics.

Butler's British Political Facts, 2018

Permanent secretariat attached to the Committee of Imperial Defence Royal Commission on the Civil Service ('MacDonnell Commission') formed, operating until 1915 1914-18 First World War sees major reorganisation of Whitehall, with new departments formed and a large influx of staff Secretariat attached to the War Cabinet, which develops into the Cabinet Office Prime Minister's Secretariat or 'Garden Suburb' formed to provide D. Lloyd George with additional support Machinery of Government Committee formed, producing 'Haldane Report' in 1918 Post of Head of the Civil Service created and attached to the office of Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Treasury given responsibility for management of the Civil Service, as recommended by 'Bradbury Report' Economic Advisory Council formed, bringing together a range of outside expertise to advise government on response to economic slump 1939-45 Second World War sees an influx of temporary civil servants, major structural reorganisations, and new departments formed Entity subsequently known as the Economic Section formed, to provide the War Cabinet with expert economic advice Prime Minister's Statistical Section formed, staffed by external experts, to provide the Prime Minister with an overview of the war effort At conclusion of war, many outsiders return to their previous walks of life Central Economic Planning Staff formed to advise on economic planning Economic Section transferred from the Cabinet Office to the Treasury Royal Commission on the Civil Service ('Priestley Commission') formed, recommending in 1955 pay comparability with outside for civil servants Committee of Inquiry on the Control of Public Expenditure ('Plowden Committee') formed, reporting in 1961 national Economic Development Council formed, bringing together representatives of government, unions and business Department of Economic Affairs formed as an intended counterweight to the Treasury in the realm of economic policy 1964-70 A small team of outside economic advisers established under T. Balogh to support the incoming Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. Various other special advisers recruited from outside Whitehall to work in other parts of the government House of Commons Select Committee on Estimates publishes report on Civil Service 1966-68 Committee on the Civil Service ('Fulton Committee') Head of the Home Civil Service becomes a separate role, transferred to a newlyformed Civil Service Department Central Policy Review Staff, a mixed team of seconded civil servants and outsiders, formed to advise the Cabinet on long term issues Prime Minister's Policy Unit, a small team of outsiders, formed to provide extra policy advice to the Prime Minister Civil Service 'Wider Issues Review' produces Civil Servants and Change report Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit formed Civil Service Department abolished. Headship of the Civil Service temporarily shared between Treasury and Cabinet Office, then transferred fully along with most responsibility for management of the Civil Service to the Cabinet Office in 1983 'Armstrong Memorandum' explaining constitutional position of civil servants issued Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit produces a draft of its 'Improving Management in Government' The Prime Minister, J. Major, announces the 'Citizen's Charter' initiative for improving standards in public services Code of Practice on Access to Official Information comes into force Civil Service Code issued The incoming Prime Minister, Tony Blair, grants executive powers to up to three special advisers based at no.

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Alberta Law Review, 2008

Peer review has emerged as a method of assessing the work of legal aid lawyers in the United Kingdom. The authors show how testing different methods led to review of files emerging as the most effective means of peer review. A number of approaches, including double marking of files, are used to ensure accuracy and consistency among the reviewers. Peer review in Scotland may be more relevant than England and Wales to the Canadian context as the legal professions are of similar size. The authors discuss both criminal and civil work and the application of peer review as well as the outcomes of the pilot projects in the U.K.

Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Sains

This article not only seeks to compile an understanding of the concept of professionalism from various fields but also offers a conceptual framework related to professionalism, especially in public organizations. Therefore, not much academics have discussed the concept of professionalism in public organizations, regarding the component that shape professionalism and their implication on organizational processes nowadays. Furthermore, the demands from society also make public organizations have to make a paradigm shift towards new public management. The new paradigm has also changed the organizational process which is related to the concept of competence and performance. Thus, the human resource in the public sector needs transforming into professionals due to respond to the challenges and the complexity of public demands in the future. The method used in this article is through a comparative study approach and literature review that has been submitted by academics in various fields...

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, 1996

DergiPark (Istanbul University), 2012

Starting on October 1, 2011 the dual system of regulation of private law relations-i.e. through a Civil Code and a Commercial Code, as distinct normative documents-was abandoned in favor of a single system, meaning that all private law relations currently enjoy a unique regulation, as reflected by the new Civil Code (NCC). This change, produced in terms of how to regulate private law relations, also marked a change in the approach to the scope of commercial law, namely the transition from an objective regulatory system to a subjective one. In accordance with the provisions of art. 3 par. 2 and 3 NCC, the professional is the person "(...) who operates an enterprise", and the operation of an enterprise is "(...) the systematic exercise, by one or more persons, of an organized activity, consisting of producing, managing or disposing of goods, or of performing services, whether for profit or not"(art. 3 par. 3 NCC).

Jurisdictions around the world are regulating and re-regulating legal professions, including the common law countries, where legal professionalism has traditionally been strong. In the UK, the 2007 Legal Services Act (LSA) represents a significant watershed, one that might have signalled the death of legal professionalism. In the event the LSA created a Legal Services Board (LSB) to oversee regulation of the legal services market within a framework of statutory goals, including promotion of an independent, strong, diverse and effective legal profession. Rather than rationalising the professions or abolishing their organisational and normative structures, the LSA promises to enshrine professional aspirations and principles in legislation while tightening control of professional bodies, influencing the professional agenda and shaping the market though competition. This article traces the processes by which the LSA is redefining the professions and professionalism in England and Wales and critical factors; the construction and organisation of professional work, reconstruction of the regulatory system, adjustments in regulatory method and the implications for education and training strategies. The article concludes that the LSA establishes relationships and processes that will undermine aspects of traditional professionalism and indicates ways in which the legal professions might mitigate some of these impacts.