All Regulation and compliance articles – Page 132
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NewsSRA to introduce new in-house regulations next year
Plans outlined in regulator’s response to Legal Services Board paper on regulatory restrictions for in-house lawyers.
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NewsSeparate-business rule relaxation ‘will increase consumer choice’
Legal Services Board approves plans to allow law firms to manage businesses in other sectors.
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Bar Council leader raises concerns over ABS entities
Alistair MacDonald QC says there are still unanswered questions on alternative business structures and if they should be permitted at the bar.
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OpinionPII renewal: scattergun or ‘sniper’?
There must be a simpler way of completing the indemnity renewal process.
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NewsFirms under scrutiny over anti-money laundering
Reports about potential breaches of anti-money laundering rules continue to rise, with 184 in the last year.
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NewsSRA chief urges caution over legal regulation reform
Statement comes after both the justice secretary and oversight regulator suggested change may be necessary.
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NewsFirm fined for related business disclosure lapse
Freeman Harris referred clients to a medical-reporting company owned by a partner.
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NewsAction day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action
Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
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News‘Compelling case’ for reforming regulation – LSB
Super-regulator sets out legislative options for shakeup of Legal Services Act.
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News‘Cab rank’: barristers allowed to refuse work from solicitors
Changes mean solicitors believed to pose an ‘unacceptable’ credit risk will not be able to call on the time-honoured rule.
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OpinionRegulating the unregulated
A US case involving dentists has refocused attention on that vexed question: how do we police unregulated providers?
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Opinion
Guidance plea to SRA
‘Urgent need’ for guidance on disclosure of information on patients has not been followed up.
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NewsSuper-regulator proposes ‘more discretionary’ approach to ABSs
Legal Services Board publishes collective response to government's call for deregulation proposals.
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OpinionRating lawyers online
Web platforms allowing clients to review legal services raise difficult issues. How should they work?
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NewsTransfer test barrier removed
Candidates currently required to travel to London for one element of the test.
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OpinionNo panacea on regulation
A consensus is lacking on reform, the lord chancellor will discover.
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Opinion
Digging deep for McKenzie friends
It is a scandal that litigants who are frequently very vulnerable can be persuaded to part with large sums of money for unqualified ‘friends’.
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NewsGove gets to work on the courts and regulation
Justice secretary gives notice of radical reform programme including court closures and review of legal regulation.
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NewsAccounts burden lifted from 1,000 smaller firms
New threshold for removing the requirement to submit accountants’ reports.