Thom Brooks delivers keynote speech at Legal Ed Con 2025
Durham Law School's Professor Thom Brooks delivered the closing keynote speech on the similarities between the SQE and Brexit
The eighth annual LegalEdCon on legal education organised by Legal Cheek was held in London on 15 May. Durham Law School's Professor Thom Brooks delivered the closing keynote speech returning to a theme from his first LegalEdCon talk on the similarities between the SQE and Brexit described as a 'prophetic' view of future concerns with the test.
In his keynote speech, Professor Brooks called for a re-set to reform the SQE. He offered a 10-point plan including creating a SQE Advisory Panel with recent test takers, professorial test makers and legal practitioners to reflect on feedback and revisit processes and design. He argued the SQE content for the first and second parts ought to be reconsidered and include tech. He emphasised the need for greater transparency on data linked to providers which had been expected since the SQE's launch, but not yet materialised.
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