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In the market for early-career legal talent in the United Kingdom, competition between public institutions and private practice has been a structural feature for years.
The Crown Prosecution Service is acting on it directly, increasing its intake of trainee lawyers with the stated aim of making itself more competitive against large private law firms.
The agency's calculation The CPS has named competition with private firms as its explicit motivation, and that framing matters.
It positions the move as a deliberate response to a known constraint rather than a routine expansion of capacity.
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