Different criteria should be used to determine whether a specific aspect of the organisation and implementation of an activity related to professional training of lawyers is a good practice.

When searching for objective criteria, we should be looking beyond the basic actions and practices needed simply to organise a training activity. Rather we should looking to processes, actions, behaviours, etc., which will lift, at least slightly, a training activity to more than a “run-of-the–mill” training activity in the specific context of training of lawyers.

This is why the criteria proposed may appear to include processes, actions or behaviours, which are unusual or which have never been encountered by the reader.

For instance, it is taken as a given that organising a training activity implies establishing a list of participants or asking for feedback on the activity at the end of it. Such actions are not enough in themselves to present a training activity or a training related process as a good practice. However, it may be considered a good practice if a system is in place that also assesses the results of a given training activity.

Training providers, bars and individual lawyers can use some of the be criteria listed in the attached downloadable document (see top right corner of this page) to describe how and why one or several aspects of a specific training activity or training-related activities should be considered as good practice. It is not necessary to use all the criteria. It is not necessary that a training activity includes all the criteria listed as relevant to a specific aspect of training preparation, organisation or implementation to be presented as a good practice. ...