Most legal practitioners in Ireland require Continuing Professional Development Hours or Points to maintain their professional designation. Browse courses that meet your requirements, or choose one of our course packages, specially curated to contain the hours and credits you need, in a single place. The courses on LearnFormula may be counted towards professionally relevant, verifiable, structured learning activities. It is the student's responsibility to validate whether an activity is an eligible educational activity for their professional development requirements based on their own learning needs.
CPD Hours
25 / year
Course Requirement
VerifiableIncluding
Solicitors to whom the Regulations apply are required in each practice year/CPD cycle to undertake a minimum of 25 hours of CPD (the “minimum CPD requirement”), of which at least 5 hours must comprise professional development and solicitor wellbeing and of which at least 3 hours must comprise client care and professional standards
The minimum CPD requirement must be undertaken in one of the permitted ways, that is, in group study (minimum of 5 hours/20% of the annual CPD requirement), by eLearning (maximum of 20 hours/80% of the annual CPD requirement) and/or by writing relevant material that is published (maximum of 12.5 hours/50% of the annual CPD requirement), the criteria and restrictions applying to each permitted way being detailed in heading 7. Solicitors should note that private study and/or research is not a permitted way of completing CPD.
Courses on LearnFormula may qualify as eLearning.
CPD Hours
20 / year
Course Requirement
VerifiableIncluding
Members are required to complete a minimum of 20 CPD points per CPD year. Of these, 12 points must be completed from the formal /structured category of activity.
At least one point must be obtained from a CPD activity relevant to each of the competency domains within the competency framework.
At least one point related to ethics must be obtained from participation in an ethics CPD activity that has been approved by The Bar of Ireland.
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