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PII complaints initiative to cut premiums
A City law firm and an insurance broker are offering to take on complaints-handling work for law firms with a service that they claim could cut firms’ professional indemnity insurance (PII) premiums. Davies Arnold Cooper will provide 10 hours of free legal advice on internal and ...
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Insolvencies in Merseyside on the rise
Solicitor bankruptcies in the Merseyside area have risen sharply, the official receiver said last week.Ian Thomson, official receiver for Liverpool, said that there have been ‘more than the usual’ number of solicitors going bust over the last six months. Thomson estimated that in a normal year, between four and five ...
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BSB chair: 'merge solicitors' and barristers' training courses'
The chair of the bar’s regulator has called for a radical overhaul of legal professional education by merging the solicitors’ and barristers’ courses, to give young people longer to decide which branch of the profession they want to join. Bar Standards Board chair Lady Deech ...
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Employment
Banking and finance – Contracts – Bonus payments – Summary judgments Parties Named in Schedule A v (1) Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd (2) Commerzbank AG; Fahmi Anar & Ors v (1) Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd (2) Commerzbank AG: QBD (Mr Justice ...
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Society repeats nationwide ad campaign to promote solicitors
The Law Society has launched a repeat of last year’s nationwide drive to promote solicitors in an advertising campaign that began this week. Adverts will run in more than 450 railway stations and on more than 40 buses, as well as in the national press and ...
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Fresh legal aid cuts not ruled out by MoJ
The new legal aid minister refused to rule out more legal aid cuts in his first press interview last week. Jonathan Djanogly (pictured) also said no decision had been made on whether the coalition would proceed with the Labour government’s plans to consolidate the criminal defence ...
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EAT upholds victimisation claim
A firm that ‘gratuitously’ mentioned a solicitor’s previous discrimination claim against it when providing an employment reference to another firm has lost an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Pothecary Witham Weld (PWW) lost the appeal in a case that has established that the reverse burden ...
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Banks' reluctance to grant loans impedes student access to LPC
Access to the profession is being restricted because banks are increasingly unwilling to provide loans to Legal Practice Course students, the Junior Lawyers Division has warned. JLD chair Heidi Sandy said LPC students across the country have reported that they are finding it more difficult ...
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The jurisdictional scope of freezing orders
The jurisdiction of a freezing order was set out in the leading case of TSB Private Bank International S.A. v Chabra [1992] 1 WLR 231 (also known as the court’s Chabra-type of jurisdiction). It was held that, so long as the claimant had a good arguable cause of action against ...
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Warning over CPS recruitment freeze and budget cut
A recruitment freeze at the Crown Prosecution Service and its latest budget cut will increase the burden on defence solicitors and the criminal justice system, lawyers warned this week. The Attorney General’s Office has said that the CPS must contribute an additional £16m of savings. This ...
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Conveyancers 'vulnerable' as mortgage fraud continues to rise
Conveyancing solicitors are ‘uniquely vulnerable’ to exploitation by criminals laundering money, a leading anti-money laundering solicitor has warned. The warning came as the latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority showed that cases of mortgage fraud continue to rise. Peter Rodd, ...
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Law firms and investors showing 'little appetite' for external funding
Lifting restrictions on external investment in law firms will not lead to a ‘big bang’ for the legal profession, ‘just a big whimper’, a leading private equity investor has predicted. His comments came as the Ministry of Justice confirmed that the new government is ‘fully ...
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How legal services reforms will affect high street firms
A glimpse of the future can be found in unlikely places. Nigel Haddon, chairman of the Law Society’s Law Management Section (LMS), caught one in a local supermarket. And he heard it, too. Haddon was at his local Co-op when he was ‘surprised to hear advertising ...
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Baha Mousa inquiry raises important human rights concerns
You can see why Sir Mike Jackson was Tony Blair’s favourite soldier. He looks – even with his manicured eye bags – like a general and he talks like a general. He is politically shrewd; he demanded the opinion on the legality of the Iraq war that has subsequently dogged ...
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Split profession?
I read with interest that the Legal Services Board commissioned an ‘economic analysis’ which concluded there was no evidence that referral fees harm consumers.
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Border agency has to get it right
I agree with C Selvarajah ‘Asylum tragedy’ (see letters, 27 May). Nobody likes uncertainty, which prevents them from pursuing a full life.
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Why government's response to cost-capping victory could be disappointing
Many demands contained in the Law Society’s pre-election manifesto, the theme of which was curbing the increasing power of the state and safeguarding the freedom of the individual, have already been met by the coalition government. This is welcome, though the suspicion lingers that the new administration was able to ...
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Regulation and will-writing
As long as there is an unregulated will-making sector, professional and ethical solicitors, and professional and ethical willwriters, should join forces with a common goal to provide professional and regulated will-writing services to consumers by whatever means the consumer chooses.
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Solicitors who defend in the Youth Court should be specially trained
by Penelope Gibbsdirector of the Out of Trouble Programme at the Prison Reform Trust Thousands of 10 and 11-year-olds are prosecuted in our courts every year, yet it took one case of two children accused of raping an eight-year-old to enlighten the public about the absurdity ...