Solicitors may claim two and a half hours CPD credit when they complete the lesson. Lessons allow for branching in different directions depending on the input of the user. The user is an active participant in the learning process and can move around easily in the lesson, consult the pleadings and rules of evidence, come back into the lesson and receive immediate and delayed supportive feedback, consider tactics or quit and view the end of lesson options. Choices and requests can be made which affect what the user sees on the screen. The user of a laserdisc allows every frame or image on the disc to be identified and coded so that any one frame, whether it be still image or the start of a moving sequence, can be retrieved and brought to the screen almost instantaneously, so allowing random access to any part of the laserdisc.
Practitioners find the medium a cost effective method of in-house training.
It cuts down on time away from the office on external courses and the expense of course fees. The code of practice for compliance with continuing professional development obligations stresses the importance of appreciating that solicitors most often get into difficulty because of lapses in case or office management and poor communication with clients rather than through ignorance or law or procedure. We are interested to hear from anyone, individuals or groups, who may wish to discuss the commissioning or sponsorship of lessons relating to their own special interests. Further I.V. lessons will be produced in the near future. Copies of the first and second lessons are available now for purchase or hire from the Law School at Staffordshire University.