Senior Communication figures, disqualified by the approved Conveyor Council (CLC), have issued an unusually honest apology to the real estate industry.
Lloyd Davis established the Training Academy in 2014, as a former boss of the Welsh company, conveying the Charitable Foundation of Law and Charity. 
However, despite the CLC's training regulator, the Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA), it withdrew its support after complaints about the academy, including the academy taking over the new candidate. The CLC then recently decided to investigate, and the results were that, as Neg reported yesterday, Davies had his CLC license to cancel the CLC.
He has now issued a statement that “again, sincere apologies to all those affected by these chronic events,” but quietly did not get results.
Honest apology
Also, agreeing to pay a CLC fine of £175,000, Davis tried to explain how the situation came to be.
He says that in 2019, the training manger gur, who claims he was later found guilty of serious misconduct, compromised the CLC exam for two law directors.
Davis says that in 2021, the CLC course regulator, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), accidentally halted the Communication Academy until 2021, pending the results of the investigation into the issue.
“The SQA investigation took 10 months to complete when it was supposed to take only a few weeks,” Davies said.
“My fellow directors and I both found themselves innocent in the conclusions of the SQA investigation, but SQA still ended their training contract with the academy.
“Two years ago, the CLC incited a lawsuit against me and my fellow licensed committee colleagues.
Davis offered an apology to eight students whose CLC courses were delayed as a result of this issue, saying, “The two directors who were chronically affected by CLC investigations of them, even though they were innocent, even when they left the profession.”
£350,000 survey cost
Davis also criticized both the SQA and CLC actions, particularly the latter, for the time and cost that it took to complete its investigation and hearing, totaling around £350,000.
“I was never confident in a fair trial. I agreed to abandon my licensed hauler practice license, which has not been renewed since 2022, to ensure the exoneration of my colleagues.
“The CLC prosecutors are not proportional or fair, and CLC actions in relation to all of these issues require independent investigation.
“It's a great relief to be unregulated by CLC and hope that our colleagues at Conveve Law are the best in the future.”
CLC Statement
A CLC spokesman told Neg: “After the SQA license was suspended, Davies claimed he would provide a national specialist qualification that would lead to a license to practice as a licensed carrier through his training business, which was later revoked.
“This damaged the education of the licensed transporters of many trainees who worked so hard to achieve their ambitions to enter the legal profession, which has denied the reputation of the profession he was a member of and hurt the efforts of so many to increase the number of licensed transporters.
“It is always a shame that we have to take such actions, but we are grateful to those who are pleased with the outcome and have moved forward in search of support.
“The ruling panel, which makes disciplinary and enforcement decisions based on allegations made by the CLC, is independent in its decisions.
“You've probably heard allegations that Davis and the CLC accepted the agreement reached and that the contract was allegedly proceeded without an agreement. The public decision shows the agreed facts of the case.”
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