Mandatory Ethics Component (‘MEC’) Points are CPD Points obtained for undertaking CPD activities on ethics and professional standards (‘MEC topics’).
All lawyers and s36B Foreign Lawyers who hold a practising certificate or foreign practitioner certificate for more than 8 months in a CPD Year will need to obtain at least 3 MEC Points, of which at least 1.5 must be Public MEC Points.
If you hold a PC / FPC for 8 months or less in a CPD Year, you do not need to obtain any minimum number of MEC points for that CPD Year.
Please refer to this page for further details on MEC Points Requirements.
For the full list of programmes under the Mandatory Component for Ethics and Professional Standards published by SILE, view the CALAS calendar and refer to the icon “MEC Activity Forecast”.