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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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‘Simples’: Compare The Market owner BGL buys Minster Law
BGL Group, the owner of price-comparison site Compare the Market, has bought personal injury specialist Minster Law
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LSA now better reflected in firms’ business plans
The proportion of firms that expect to change their business strategy in response to the Legal Services Act has more than doubled in the last three years
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Society victory over banks’ derivatives products
The Law Society has persuaded the government to allow retail banks to offer derivatives products to business customers
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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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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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Clients still failing to ‘shop around’
The Legal Services Board has called on regulators to provide clear information on provider performance
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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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Legal aid cuts ‘will hammer middle England’
Four out of five adults in England and Wales would be unable to pay for a lawyer
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Fixed fees in legal aid ruled unlawful – in New Zealand
The Court of Appeal in New Zealand has ruled that a planned legal aid shakeup to introduce fixed fees is unlawful.
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Chancery Lane announces wills accreditation scheme
The Law Society has confirmed it will introduce a new accreditation scheme - the Wills and Inheritance Scheme - in the autumn.
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Students warm to ABSs
A clear majority of law students (63%) believe that the advent of alternative business structures (ABSs) will provide wider employment opportunities for lawyers.
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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 ...
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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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Statutory wills
In a very helpful judgment, Behrens J reviewed the recent decisions on statutory wills and produced a summary of how to make a decision that is in P's best interests, in the context of a statutory will. The statutory provisions The law ...
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Will-writing could still be regulated
Will-writing could eventually be brought within the scope of regulation, despite the government’s spurning of the profession’s call to make it a reserved activity. Justice secretary Chris Grayling last week responded to the Legal Services Board’s recommendation for regulation by saying there was insufficient evidence ...
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Paying the price
Not a great week for our beloved uber-regulator, the Legal Services Board. First, the lord chancellor flicks away its impassioned case for the regulation of will-writing like a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists. All the board’s chairman David Edmonds ...
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Paper weight
What goes around, comes around, and now it’s time to eschew online marketing and go back to using dead trees. Or at any rate that’s what those techie chaps at mylawyer.co.uk have just done. They inserted a printed flyer inside the Sunday Times and awaited a response. ...
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Welsh office
The National Assembly for Wales was delighted to feature in the Gazette (interview with Elisabeth Jones). However, we would like to point out a small, but important, slip in the first paragraph of the hard copy edition, in which Ms Jones is described as leading ...