Regulation and compliance – Page 103
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NewsOuter Temple Chambers hires solicitor after entity approval
New setup will help manage international queries.
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NewsEx-Kaim Todner directors fined for not disclosing money problems 'promptly'
Firm entered into company voluntary arrangement with creditors in 2013.
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NewsSolicitor who fleeced elderly clients jailed for four years
Giles Scott, 63, was a ‘pillar of the local community’ in Stearsby, North Yorkshire.
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NewsNew alarm over role of McKenzie advisers
Paid McKenzie friend and his accomplice both guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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NewsFormer Parabis trainee lied to clients about struck-out claims
Jack Patrick Walker told it would be undesirable for him to be involved in a legal practice.
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NewsLSB softens ‘prescriptive’ diversity approach
Consultation paper says some regulators have moved past 2011 guidance.
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News'Solicitor' warned over ‘meritless’ claim against two barristers
High Court judge refuses permission to refer barristers to bar regulator.
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NewsCity watchdog urged to exempt legal from new accountability regime
Senior managers regime could erode legal professional privilege and put lawyers in a conflict-of-interest situation, Law Society warns.
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NewsSociety: lifting reserved activity restrictions could threaten UK competitiveness
Chancery Lane was responding to additional questions from the Competition and Markets Authority on reserved legal activities.
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NewsLSB outrage over IBA claim it is government-controlled
Chief executive says super-regulator takes decisions ‘without fear or favour from government’.
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NewsLeO: Handbook overhaul will ‘confuse’ clients
Complaints-handler joins multiple critics of SRA proposals to reform practising rules.
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NewsSRA will shut law firms over ‘dubious’ investment schemes
Firms warned over using banking services through client accounts.
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NewsJudge suggests ex-client could claim against defunct Blavo
Blavo & Co should have properly advised client before closing, tribunal hears.
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NewsIBA 2016: legal independence in E&W under attack
Political attacks on lawyers and regulators answerable to government – two of the warning signs highlighted in major report.
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NewsUse correct grammar, BSB tells newly qualified barristers
Recommendation comes in revised version of competences for practitioners.
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NewsCity savages SRA over handbook changes
As Brexit looms, City solicitors berate proposals which could ’damage the reputation of English law’ at a time when our jurisdiction is vulnerable.
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NewsPublic opposed to SRA handbook proposals
Ipsos-Mori survey shows the public likely to be overwhelmingly opposed to removal of key client protections.
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NewsTop-tier barristers set creates BSB entity
6 Pump Court originally designed entity to focus on criminal legal aid work.
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NewsLawyers aghast at SRA plans to lift cold-calling ban
Rule on unsolicited calls would disappear from the code of conduct under plans to drastically slim down the handbook.
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NewsFirm helped clients avoid £1.3m stamp duty payments
Gloucestershire firm BPE Solicitors agrees to regulatory settlement following SRA investigation.