Caution for travelling with a child travelcard

[star2858]

I am currently studying law at uni and am really really worried about my prospects of obtaining membership with the Law Society. I received a caution about a year ago now just for having a child travelcard - i thought they fined ppl for that. When i am due to apply for membership next year, just over two years will have passed since the indicent. I am worried my legal career is over even before it began. I don't know what i would do if i could not practice law, i'd probably be dead or something if that happened. I was just wondering whether any of you know anyone who was in my position and considering a career in law or about how the Law Society assess and whether you think i could make it...

Thanks

[Ethel]

Admission to the Law Society is dependent on a satisfactory standard Criminal Records Bureau check.

If it is not satisfactory, you will not be admitted.

Standard Disclosures contain the following;

* details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings held on the Police National Computer (PNC)

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/becomingasolicito r/admissionroll.law

http://www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1871

I suggest you discuss this with one of your tutors. It concerns me that you thought it acceptable to commit any offence because you thought you would just be fined if caught. This is not the right attitude, neither is saying you would be dead if you couldn't practice law. Maybe this is a reflection of your immaturity.

[star2858]

I think you're seeing this the wrong. I am hardly immature. I've worked so hard to get where i am and i really want to be a lawyer. What i did was just a childish mistake and should be forgiven because i was so devastated after it and have never thought to do such a thing again. The Law Society ask for you to prove that you are honest and trustworthy is such cases (on their site - guidelines of assessing character/suitability issues). What i must do is prove that i am capable. This is could do. I've done so much volunteering and stuff, really motivated, interested and people have relied on me to help them when i've been in these situations.

[sfy]

You say that you're "hardly immature" but you also stated that you "made a childish mistake". Not much of an argument.
The law society may take your fraudulent use of a travel pass as an indicator that you might not be as honest as they would like