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So you've asked me about that blog? Well here it is in summary form, but read it soon as it is sure to be taken down It was all about the new PPL cover you'll all have to have wef 1 April 12014. So what is this cover, you ask. Well it stands for the President's Plimsole Line. It flows from the Bog Standard Regulations 2013 which themselves are an attempt to get ahead of even Brussels in the matter of the volume of water solicitors' practices can use when they flash. The PPL is a line above which the water must not rise. So the President will make his mark permanently on the back of every solicitors' WCs. And to ensure compliance there will be an army of enforcers to be known as BSRCOs or BSRCOS Compliance Officers. They will comprise mainly ex-solicitors put out of business by the PPI Regulations and who after a period of intensive training will be empowered to descend upon any practice in the country to ensure compliance. On the first visit a warning will be issued and an indelible line, the notorious PPL, placed in every WC pan. But this will not be one of those paperless exercises as a hard copy record of such visits will have to be kept by both sides, failing which a penalty will be payable.

As if this brush with the SRA were not enough there will be a monitoring body the BSRCOMC which will come around checking up on the work of the BSRCOs. Finally the BSRCOs will, of course, have to carry insurance, to be known as BSRCOs PII in case they cause injury or even offence, which insurance will have to continue for 6 years' run off.

So well done, Mr. President you have got ahead of even Brussels in the PC world of WC trans-Europe compliance and made your mark on every solicitors' WCs in England and Wales. Welsh solicitors can of course call them the TyBach Stabdardisation Regulations and the Compliance Officers..... Well I think you have probably by now got my drift. The proverbial has at last hit the
, or should that be fan?

And there will of course be a fee payable to cover the cost of monitoring all this compliance and enforcement which with any luck will have the effect of putting out of business all those solicitors who have so far managed to renew their PCs and PPI insurance 2013/14.