Regulation and compliance – Page 126
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NewsSuper-regulator calls for ‘fastest possible’ QASA start
The Legal Services Board calls for implementation of quality assurance scheme – even though the High Court has yet to rule on its lawfulness.
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NewsOmbudsman ‘concerned’ at SRA file retention plan
Legal complaints handler accepts relatively few will be affected, but says move could harm access to justice.
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News‘Substantial’ number of firms not revealing PII status - SRA
Regulator threatens legal action against firms that have not provided evidence of their professional indemnity insurance cover.
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NewsAccountants approved to enter legal sector
ICAEW to be granted power to license alternative business structures.
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NewsNew practice rights pending for legal executives
Probate and conveyancing rights recommended by Legal Services Board.
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NewsMoJ pledges claims management clampdown under LeO
Ombudsman to handle complaints about CMCs from next year.
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NewsBar chair-elect renews call to scrap LSB
Frontline regulators including the SRA should be free to ‘get on with their job’.
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NewsIPReg authorised to regulate ABS entities
Intellectual property lawyers given option to bring in non-legal owners.
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NewsSRA ‘doing decent job’ regulating the City
As recently as 2009, the Smedley report suggested the SRA was ill-equipped to regulate City firms.
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NewsCanada bar chief keeps open mind on ABSs
Fred Headon said the profession is looking closely at the UK and Australia as it decides whether to back non-lawyer ownership of firms.
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NewsSuspension ordered for ‘win at all costs’ Times solicitor
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal rules that Alastair Brett knowingly allowed a court to be misled.
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NewsBarrass: SRA was pressurised to fast-track ABSs
Executive director uses final speech for attack on secretive bigger firms, aspiring ABSs – and other regulatory bodies.
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NewsQASA ruling not expected this term, says Leveson
Presiding judge did not expect 17 lever-arch files of paperwork.
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NewsLegal Ombudsman sets out slimming plans
Service responds to criticism of its cost-per-complaint ratio.
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NewsFormer solicitor to head New Zealand's financial regulator
Rob Everett is to become chief executive of the Financial Markets Authority in February.
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NewsFirms burying heads in sand over finances
Only half of firms understood what is involved if they get into financial trouble.
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NewsSociety advice on barristers’ VHCC protest
The withdrawal of counsel over VHCC work should be treated like any other change of legal team.
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NewsRegulator amends rule to allow barristers to refuse fee cut
The ‘deeming’ provision of the cab rank rule will not apply to VHCCs following the Bar Standards Board’s statement.
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NewsSRA opens ‘forensic investigations’ into fee-ban avoidance
Visits to firms have continued through November as enforcement action comes closer.