Law Society Gazette 27 July 2015

Calls for less prescription on ABSs

‘Extremely prescriptive’ requirements in the process for licensing alternative business structures would be replaced by a more discretionary regime if the super-regulator’s ideas for changes in the Legal Services Act 2007 are taken up. The current regime ‘assumes – without evidence – that ABSs are more risky than other types of providers, thereby imposing higher costs and burdens on them’, the LSB states. 

28 July 2005

Lawyers in dock over crime review 

Solicitors are not taking applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission seriously enough and are delaying the review process, the commission’s chairman said this week. 

26 July 1995

Murder rule

The Law Society’s criminal law committee has welcomed the home secretary’s decision to abolish the year-and-a-day rule for murder. After the Commons announcement last week, Michael Howard said: ‘Those who cause death should be responsible for their actions.’

24 July 1985

Valley Parade fire disaster

At a meeting held at Bradford City Hall on 10 July at the initiative of Bradford Law Society, 45 solicitors, representing approximately 120 victims of the Bradford City fire disaster, agreed in principle that the potential claims arising from the disaster should be coordinated. It is anticipated that court proceedings in the nature of a test case will soon be issued. 

23 July 1975

Public relations

In the issue of 2 June, our public relations officer defends himself against the charge of not answering attacks on the profession by three Labour MPs by taking the line that the profession’s interests are best served in the long run by not responding to hysterical attacks. This assumes that the attacks are based entirely on hysteria. Can we honestly say that, or are we retreating dangerously into self-convinced smugness?

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