Law Society Gazette, 18 April 2016
QS chief steps down in brand rethink
The strategy expert hired to turn around the fortunes of the QualitySolicitors network is leaving his post as chief executive after just over two years. QS said it is now established as a ‘leading legal services website’.
27 April 2006
Co-op Group move into legal services
The Co-operative Group is to launch a legal services business that will be available to its 1.5 million members. While current law prevents the Co-op from offering legal services to non-members, the plan is to offer them directly to the public as soon as the liberalisation of the market comes into force.
24 April 1996
Education shake-up
Proposals for the most radical shake-up of legal training for 25 years are to be unveiled by the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. The proposals are expected to include a single qualification for all law students and a reduction in the training contract to one year or even six months.
23 April 1986
Towards a legal electronic network?
By supporting Network for Law, the Law Society has provided an electronic communications service for those in the profession. Together with British Telecom, the Society is developing ‘value-added’ facilities for the electronic mail and telex base.
28 April 1976
Human rights
In an address to the International Press Institute, the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Roy Jenkins MP, said that the real danger was that we in this country would ‘remain complacently indifferent to serious defects in our system’ from the point of view of protection of human rights.
April 1966
Financing litigation
The proposals by a committee of justice in its report Trial of Motor Accident Cases include the institution of an independent, non-profit-making organisation to finance litigation on a contingency fee basis.
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