Last 3 months headlines – Page 1163
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Don’t bad-mouth the profession, Hudson tells Co-op
Co-operative Legal Services has sought to distance itself from comments reportedly made by its sales and marketing director suggesting that putting the customer first is ‘an alien approach’ for solicitors. Reporting the launch of the Co-op Legal Services’s multi-million-pound TV and radio advertising campaign, Marketing Week ...
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SRA vigil as over 50 law firms fear collapse
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is continuing to supervise more than 50 firms at risk of financial collapse, after reporting a figure of 56 in March.
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Legal firms looking to outsource back-office work
Outsourcing providers say they are experiencing a wave of interest from law firms looking to transfer the employment of back-office staff.la
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Quarter of GCs lack resources to manage
As European in-house legal budgets rise across the board, a divide is opening up between departments that have sufficient resources to provide legal advice coverage, and those that do not. That is the conclusion of benchmarking research by Consero Group carried out among members of its European General Counsel Forum. ...
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EU justice growth scheme under fire
The EU’s ‘Justice for Growth’ project,came in for criticism at last week’s plenary session of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) in Athens
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Lexcel divide could help cut PII premiums
The Law Society is considering expanding its Lexcel practice management standard scheme by creating separate quality marks for sectors such as private practice and in-house.
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Colombia lawyers ‘still persecuted’ - Caravana report
Assassinations, death threats, unlawful detention and other abuses of lawyers continue unchecked in Colombia
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Society guidance to stave off flood risk
The Law Society has published a practice note to help conveyancers protect the owners of an estimated five million properties at risk of flooding.
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UK urged not to opt out of criminal law initiatives
The government’s indecision over whether or not to opt in to more than 130 EU criminal law measures owes more to ‘political impetus’ than the desire to see good law,
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Tell clients to donate more in wills, charities group urges
A charities group has called on solicitors to remind clients to consider leaving money to good causes in their will, after a trial scheme increased legacies left by £1m.
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Surviving international legal encounters
I know that complaining about business travel to glamorous destinations is considered inverted snobbery. I have been in Athens and Zurich these last two weeks, first at a Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) Plenary Session and then at an IBA Bar Leaders Meeting. Why complain, you ...
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Government denies plan for ‘wholesale privatisation’ of courts
The Ministry of Justice has denied it has plans for the ‘wholesale privatisation’ of the courts service – despite extra pressure from the Treasury to reduce spending..
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Jackson LJ to rule on his own reforms
Lord Justice Jackson is one of five High Court judges appointed to hear appeals arising from his costs reforms.
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Quindell strikes pioneering claims deal with Honda UK
Listed personal injury consolidator Quindell is to offer accident management services to all UK Honda customers.
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JR legal aid cuts ‘immunise government from challenge’ - silks
Ninety QCs have warned that government plans to cut legal aid for judicial review will ‘immunise’ the state from legal challenge.
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Back to the drawing board on DBAs
So, nearly two months on from J-Day, has any brave soul attempted to do a damages-based agreement (DBA) yet? Thought not. The only one I have heard about was mentioned by a delegate from a large national firm at a Westminster Legal Policy Forum event the ...
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Landmark judgment sets limit on religious freedoms
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judges have rejected appeals lodged by three British Christians
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Culture change needed at BSB, says super-regulator
The Bar Standards Board will encounter ‘significant challenges’ in emulating the Solicitors Regulation Authority
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What’s so bad about privatising our courts?
When I were a lad, the trains were genuinely horrible. They were dirty, usually late and (in my corner of Essex at least) they had manual doors so you could get on board while the train was still moving. It always ...