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Take responsibility to help train our successors
So, it's not exactly surprising news, then? Apparently only 100 or so solicitors have so far bothered to reply to the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR). Admittedly, the consultation document took over half an hour to complete, but shows that most solicitors simply do not ...
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Doctors blame 'no win, no fee' for rise in legal actions
Doctors are facing unprecedented increases in claims for compensation for clinical negligence, according to the head of the Medical Defence Union. The mutual organisation, which indemnifies clinicians against claims, has revealed plans for a campaign to persuade ministers to cut the costs of damages awards. ...
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Property management business becomes latest ABS
A property management company based in London has become the latest organisation to be granted a licence as an alternative business structure. Crabtree Property Management, established in 1983, says it runs more than 17,000 units in a portfolio spread across London and the south of England. ...
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Debt judgments down by 27%, new figures show
The combined value of UK debt judgments fell sharply last year, according to statistics collected from courts across the UK. Figures released yesterday by Registry Trust, a non-profit company which runs a UK-wide register of judgment information, also show a rise in the use of ...
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SRA ponders policing of referral fee ban
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will set out within weeks how it intends to police the forthcoming ban on referral fees. The SRA has confirmed it will draw up a formal policy position in advance of a 12-week consultation starting this autumn. The ...
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Society slams ‘flawed’ logic on harassment liability plan
The Law Society has criticised the ‘fundamentally flawed’ logic behind government plans to scrap an employer’s liability for a third party’s harassment of an employee. The plan, set out in a Government Equalities Office consultation which closed on 7 August, argues that such liability is an ...
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Chancery Lane confronts Santander on panel membership
The Law Society is to hold ‘urgent’ talks with Santander to address its ‘grave’ concerns over the lender’s decision to remove hundreds of solicitors from its conveyancing panel. The move follows claims by the Law Society that hundreds of firms have been taken off the lender’s ...
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MoJ moves on claims companies
Claims management companies (CMCs) will be banned from offering incentives to the public if their solicitors accept a case, under new rules to be introduced in April 2013, the claims management regulation (CMR) unit has announced today. The CMR unit’s annual report, published today, also revealed ...
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Top-100 law firm Howard Kennedy and Finers Stephens Innocent to merge
UK top-100 law firm Howard Kennedy and Finers Stephens Innocent LLP (FSI) have agreed a deal to merge later this year. The London firms announced they have signed heads of agreement with a view to merging under the name of Howard Kennedy FSI by 1 November ...
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Solicitors shun training review
Solicitors submitted a ‘disappointingly low’ one-eighth of the almost 1,000 completed Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) surveys so far received by the review’s research team. In contrast, barristers make up almost two-fifths of the responses.
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SRA research reveals 'power' of high street firms
High street firms have ‘power’ and are known in their communities, the first phase of a consumer research project conducted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has revealed. The study to look at how the public access legal services was commenced last month and announced today. Over ...
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SRA ditches online roll list
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has abandoned its online system for maintaining a list of solicitors who want to stay on the roll, costing it hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost fees. There are around 35,000 qualified solicitors who do not have practising certificates, but who ...
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New patron of legal diversity trust
Conservative life peer Baroness Sandip Verma of Leicester has become patron of the BLD Foundation, a group that works to improve diversity and social mobility in the legal profession. The BLD (formerly Black Lawyers Directory) Foundation provides young people with access to an array of ...
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Helena Kennedy QC to co-chair IBAHRI
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has announced that Lady Helena Kennedy QC will become its first female co-chair. The peer and former barrister will join existing co-chair Sternford Moyo, the former president of the Zimbabwe Law Society, to lead the IBAHRI Council. ...
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Partners block promotion prospects
One in three solicitors in private practice blames their ‘stifled’ career progression on increased competition from their peers combined with fewer partners retiring, a survey has revealed. The survey of more than 200 private practice solicitors, published today by recruiters Laurence Simons, quoted Law Society ...
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Professor Gus John to carry out SRA racism review
Professor Gus John is to carry out an independent comparative case review to determine if there is any evidence of racism in the way the Solicitors Regulation Authority investigates black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors.
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DPAs must be transparent, Chancery Lane warns
Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) could improve the way economic crime committed by commercial organisations is dealt with, but the process must be transparent to retain public confidence, the Law Society has said.
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DPAs must be transparent, Chancery Lane warns
Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) could improve the way economic crime committed by commercial organisations is dealt with, but the process must be transparent to retain public confidence, the Law Society has said.
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Government wrong to make graduate stack shelves, High Court rules
The government was wrong to require a graduate to leave her internship in a museum to stack shelves in a high street shop, a high court judge ruled today. However, the government had not breached her human right to protection from slavery and forced labour, the ...