The Law Society has branded the recent trainee minimum salary review by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as “unfortunate” and “premature”, as trainees face seeing their pay fall to as little as £2.60 per hour.
The society’s response comes after the SRA launched a consultation on the minimum salary for trainees in January this year, after claiming there was no clear evidence that setting a minimum salary fulfils any of the regulatory objectives of the Legal Services Act, which came into force last year.
