31.   Quality standards require undertakings to be monitored and visible.

32.   Quality standards require documents and correspondence on a case to be properly stored and readily accessible.

33.   Quality standards require you to record key dates.

34.   All the quality standards require arrangements for files to be reviewed by a lawyer who has not been involved in the day-to-day conduct of the case.

35.   Quality standards are monitored by internal and external auditors.

36.   Their role is not to review the work on the files, but to assess whether the files comply with quality standards.

37.   It is no use trying to bring quality standards to lawyers if there is no way of examining the quality of the advice that lawyers receive from others.

38.   Quality standards differ as to whether or not barristers are deemed to be experts for this purpose.

39.   The quality standards refer to the maintenance of central records of experts which must comply with the data protection laws.

40.   Quality standards also require you to report on the progress of the case but this is not likely to be standard advice.