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Solicitors Regulation Authority launches review of CPD rules
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will today launch the first review of solicitors’ continuing professional development obligations for more than 25 years, to create a new scheme designed to improve solicitors’ competence and ethical conduct.
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Firm wins injunction against Solicitors from Hell
A Thames Valley firm has been awarded an interim injunction against the owner of website Solicitors from Hell, which blacklists law firms and lawyers.
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Solicitors have won the battle over insurance
The legal profession locks horns with the insurance industry on a daily basis, and this animosity is only increased when a regulator or a government decides that the two must change their ways.
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Half of UK adults cold-called by claims firms
More than half of the UK’s adults have been cold-called or texted by claims firms in the past three years, research has suggested.
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TUC warns against impact of employment law reforms
Government plans for reform of employment tribunals will discriminate against black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, women, and young workers, according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
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Consumer ‘confusion’ over legal expenses insurance
The public’s knowledge of legal expenses insurance is limited, despite the fact that 25 million UK households have bought the cover, according to research published today.
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Society welcomes amendment to solicitors’ insurance rules
The Law Society has welcomed the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority to amend its proposals on reform of the solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance (PII) market.
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Growth remains 'anaemic' in top 50 law firms
The UK’s biggest law firms did not snap into sustained recovery over the past 12 months, experts told the Gazette, as the 2010/11 financial year drew to a close last week.
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US lawyers consult on ABS reforms
The American Bar Association (ABA) has taken a first step towards introducing alternative business structures in response to rule changes on this side of the Atlantic.
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Law Commission proposes new ‘Consumer Act’
Consumers are finding it too hard to win compensation for misleading and aggressive trading practices and the law must be reviewed, the Law Commission said today.
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Society announces election of deputy vice-president
Solicitor Nick Fluck will become Law Society deputy vice-president in July, and will become president in 2013, Chancery Lane announced today.
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APIL’s new president pledges to campaign for rights of injured
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) will campaign with other claimant organisations against government plans to make injured people pay for legal fees out of their own compensation, the association’s new president will tell delegates at the APIL annual conference later this week.
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DAS considers offering written legal advice
Legal expenses insurer DAS is considering providing written legal advice to its policyholders once reforms allow, its legal chief told the Gazette this week.
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APIL calls for damages discount review
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has alleged that a failure by the justice secretary to review the damages discount rate has led to some claimants being under-compensated by ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’.
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Legal Services Board rebuffs Djanogly on ILEX rights
The Legal Services Board has dismissed a call by justice minister Jonathan Djanogly for it to consult more widely on proposals to extend the rights of legal executives to conduct litigation and appear in court.
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Clifford Chance opens in Istanbul
Magic circle firm Clifford Chance today opened an office in Istanbul, to work alongside affiliate Turkish firm Yegin Legal Consultancy.
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Solicitors from Hell ‘abusing court process’, judge finds
The owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists law firms and solicitors, has been accused by a High Court judge of abusing the process of the court.
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Insurers are delighted by civil justice reforms
Our online report on the government’s decision to implement Lord Justice Jackson’s headline civil costs recommendations has nourished a little resentment in our readers – mainly aimed at our old friends in the insurance industry.
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APIL launches court action over compensation discount rate
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has alleged that a failure by the justice secretary to review the damages discount rate has led to some claimants being under-compensated by ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’.
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Claims farmers ban on hold
A government proposal to ban ‘claims farmers’ from offering cash inducements and other benefits to the public has been put on hold, the Ministry of Justice confirmed this week.