Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC) was an advisory board established by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and tasked with assisting in "the maintenance and development of standards in the education, training and conduct of those offering legal services". It was broken up in 1999, and replaced by the Legal Services Consultative Panel.

ACLEC was established by Section 19 of Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 after being proposed in the Green Paper The Work and Organisation of the Legal Profession. The body officially came into existence in April 1991, and undertook its first major task in 1992 when it began reviewing the state of legal education in England and Wales. After two consultation papers in 1994 it published a pair of full reports in 1995, titled Access to and participation in undergraduate legal education and Funding legal education. The Committee issued two more reports - First report on legal education and training in 1996 and Continuing professional development for solicitors and barristers

In 1999 ACLEC was abolished by Statutory Instrument 1999/3296 (The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Provisions on Abolition) Order 1999) and replaced by the Legal Services Consultative Panel, an organisation within the Lord Chancellor's Department.

The Committee consisted of a chairman (who must be a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Lord Justice of Appeal or a High Court judge) and sixteen other members, all appointed by the Lord Chancellor. The first chairman appointed was Lord Griffiths, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. The sixteen other members were divided so that one was a Circuit Judge or former Circuit Judge, two were practising barristers, two were practising solicitors, two were law teachers or lecturers and nine were "lay members", which is defined as any person other than a judge, practising barrister, practising solicitor or law teacher.

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