Regulation and compliance – Page 99
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DAC Beachcroft post-room assistant 'abused trust'
Anthony Jenkins intended to make £726 from international firm.
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NewsOmbudsman keen to grow but not ‘explicitly expansionist’
Redress for consumers of unauthorised providers will be a key element for the next three years.
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NewsBoastful barrister fined and reprimanded
Michael Wolkind QC - who could ‘get Stevie Wonder a driver’s licence’ - fined £1,000 for comments on website.
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NewsLord Woolf joins hundreds of barristers in condemning bar training shakeup
Former master of rolls and LCJ among signatories of letter saying proposals are ‘radical and unappealing’.
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NewsBlacker files to Court of Appeal
Former solicitor advocate argues High Court was wrong to say his tribunal listing was a judicial function.
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NewsBarrister's website boasted he could get ‘Stevie Wonder a driving licence’
Michael Wolkind QC denies professional misconduct.
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NewsTransparency proposals 'could mislead clients' - Society
Law Society condemns SRA proposals to create a digital register of raw regulatory data.
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NewsShiner tribunal hears of ‘deliberate and calculating lies’
Former head of Public Interest Lawyers thought the ends of his actions in Iraqi claims against British military ‘justified the means’.
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NewsPhil Shiner tribunal rejects ‘manoeuvre’ to delay case
Three-week hearing opens into allegations of misconduct over Iraq war claims.
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Tribunal refuses SRA’s ‘unnecessary’ hotel bill
SDT says the SRA’s schedule of costs, at £16,273.50, was too high.
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NewsCMC complaints increase 39% in the space of a year
Delays and failure to refund upfront fees account for half of all complaints about claims management companies.
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Bar Council: solicitors' agents could face prison term
Representative body updates guidelines for unregistered barristers appearing in court.
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NewsMoJ not minded to regulate third-party litigation funding
Justice minister says market is still in its early stages of development.
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NewsSRA preparing rules on forcing law firms to publish prices
Competition watchdog has said the legal sector must be compelled to be more transparent.
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'Don’t put consumers at risk', Society tells CMA
President Robert Bourns spoke at the London School of Economics.
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News‘Para-law’ firm boasts of bypassing solicitors
Legal Case Management says it can hive off the bulk of case work to ‘skilled, unregulated paralegals’.
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NewsInsurers lose High Court discount rate challenge
ABI accuses the government of ‘caving in’ to the demands of personal injury lawyers.
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NewsFTSE giants launch GC network to tackle rule of law failures
Network - including Vodafone, BP, HSBC and others - will be chaired by Graham Vinter, formerly GC of BG Group, who is now at Covington & Burling.
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Mid-tier accounting firm eyes legal services after solicitor hire
Top-10 accountancy firm is the latest to take advantage of liberalisation of the market.
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NewsSRA removes practice curbs on former Blavo & Co directors
London-headquartered firm was shut down by the regulator in October 2015.