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Peter Mason-Apps
- Opinion
Online court – conflicting accounts
Lord Justice Briggs implies that strictly following the rules is unnecessary; and we can do without strict compliance and leave it to litigants in person to bumble along online.
- Opinion
Panel solicitor rip-off
Limited panel solicitors appointed by mortgagees, particularly the smaller ones. This limits competition.
- Opinion
Not forgetting Ukip
Where were Ukip in your feature on solicitor candidates for the main parties in the general election?
- News
Working for nothing
I read the Gazette front page of 8 November, ‘Pro bono hours dip as funding cuts loom’, with interest and, as an old-fashioned professional, a degree of concern. I do some pro bono even in my tiny firm but it did provoke a question. In the modern competitive world where ...
- News
Small firms, big headaches
I am becoming deeply concerned that the greater competition which is going to challenge small firms’ very existence is being compounded by ever-increasing regulation of those that are left.
- News
When less is more
I am told that the new SRA Handbook is over 500 pages. To quote from the Solicitors Handbook 2011 (p32): ‘The introduction of OFR will give a simplified rulebook and freedom to practise innovatively.’ My Law Society looseleaf quotes that The Professional Conduct of Solicitors from 1986, including all the ...