Mandatory Ethics Component (‘MEC’) Points

 

Mandatory Ethics Component (‘MEC’) Points are CPD Points obtained for undertaking CPD activities on ethics and professional standards (‘MEC topics’). Please see the MEC Guidelines 2024 for a list of MEC topics.

 

MEC Points Requirements 

 

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.

 

Obtaining MEC Points

 

In addition to obtaining MEC Points from CPD Activities which exclusively cover ethics and professional standards content, MEC Points may also be obtained from CPD Activities which cover a combination of ethics and professional standards content and other content. With such activities, MEC Points are obtained in respect of the portion of the CPD Activity which covers ethics and professional standards content.

 

Public MEC Points may be obtained from undertaking Accredited CPD Activities on MEC topics. The number of Public MEC Points which may be obtained will be set out in the event’s publicity materials along with the total number of Public CPD Points for that activity. Accredited CPD Activities from which Public MEC Points can be obtained are listed on CALAS. You may use the “MEC” filter to search for activities accredited with Public MEC Points.

 

You may obtain Private MEC Points for undertaking eligible non-accredited CPD activities on MEC topics, such as watching a video on managing cashflow for law practices, or attending an in-house seminar on the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules.

 

MEC Guidelines

 

Please refer to the Guidelines on Mandatory Category of CPD Activity (Ethics And Professional Standards Activities) 2024 (‘MEC Guidelines 2024’) for further details.