News – Page 208
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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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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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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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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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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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LSB relies on regulators to see off DBA ‘mis-selling’ fear
The Legal Services Board will not introduce specific guidance for damages-based agreements
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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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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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Threat to jobs at DWF
Job losses are expected at national firm DWF after it announced it is reviewing over 80 posts
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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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LETR ‘delayed by regulators’
The much-delayed final report of the Legal Education & Training Review (LETR) research team was completed on time and could have been published as planned in December 2012, but was stalled when the regulators insisted on a version three times the size of the original, the Gazette can exclusively reveal.
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Immigration clampdown ‘danger’ to legal sector
The future prosperity of Britain’s world-leading law firms could be jeopardised by headline-grabbing immigration reforms, the Law Society has warned.
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‘Don’t ditch quality,’ says Desmond Hudson
Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson has warned firms to avoid a ‘race to the bottom’ as they seek to survive and prosper in a tough market.
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LETR may be ‘outdated’, warns Savage
The much-delayed Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) could be ‘obsolete and outdated’ even before it is published, according to the University of Law’s chief executive Nigel Savage.
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Customers or clients?
Believe it or not, being chief Legal Ombudsman does not lend itself to fan mail. On the contrary, when a letter or email arrives – looking insidiously like private correspondence from a lawyer – my natural inclination is to mull over what I might have said recently in the press ...
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BT Law is born as claims unit granted ABS licence
Telecommunications giant BT today announced its long-expected move into legal services with the launch of BT Law Limited. The subsidiary, which has received an alternative business structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, will offer services to corporate customers, initially in the motor claims ...
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Extending our jurisdiction
Despite hysterical ‘end of the world’ concerns about fiscal cliffs and apocalyptic Mayan calendars, it seems we all managed to see out Christmas without too much controversy. But much as I was relieved not to meet my doom on 21 December, the joy was short-lived ...
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Education and training review delayed again
Publication of the Legal Education and Training Review’s (LETR’s) research report, which is expected to recommend the most fundamental reform of legal education in 30 years, has been delayed for a second time with no revised date for when it is likely to be released.
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Learn from your mistakes
The good ship Legal Ombudsman has been navigating some pretty treacherous waters of late. We have managed to steer past one or two potential rocks – notably the announcement that we will be taking on claims management complaints from next year, and then the publication of the first quarter of ...
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Legal education system ‘not fit for purpose’
Evidence of ‘fundamental gaps’ in lawyers’ skills suggests that the current education system is not fit for purpose, according to a discussion paper published as part of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR).