Bar Council – Contractual Terms Co...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 04 29th, 2010 | Comments Off
Bar Council Consultation Consultation closes 31 July 2010 The Bar Council is seeking views on the introduction of Contractual Terms of Work as the standard basis for barristers accepting instructions from solicitors. The current common basis of instructions is viewed as unsatisfactory and the proposed...
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Nationwide cuts 300 panel solicitors...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 26th, 2010 | Comments Off
26 April 2010 The Law Society have announced that the Nationwide Group has conducted, what it understands to be, a risk-based review of its panel solicitors and have, as a result, removed 300 law firms from their panel. The review, which has taken in panels for all of the associated brands of the Nationwide,...
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IPReg Final Consultation on Disciplinary...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 04 25th, 2010 | Comments Off
Intellectual Property Regulation Board Consultation Consultation closes 31 May 2010 In June 2009 IPReg issued a draft set of Disciplinary Rules for consultation. Following receipt of comments from interested parties the draft rules were revised and as proposed in the initial consultation, the revised...
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A taste of things to come...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 21st, 2010 | Comments Off
21 April 2010 The Law Society’s Gazette has revealed that The Co-operative Group is to promote its legal services to food shoppers through its 3,000 supermarkets nationwide, providing solicitors with a taste of what competition could be like when Alternative Business Structures are finally permitted....
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SRA issues further statement on Quinn...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 21st, 2010 | Comments Off
16 April 2010 The Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued a further statement on the position relating to Quinn Insurance Limited. They have reiterated the fact that, although Quinn has been placed in provisional administration as of 30 March that their understanding is that “this type of administration...
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LDG LegalBulletin – Issue No. 2...
Posted by admin in Bulletins on 04 13th, 2010 | Comments Off
Click here to view the Lawyers Defence Group’s second legal bulletin in your browser. A plain text version is set out below. LAWYERS DEFENCE GROUP BULLETIN 2 —————————————————————– In...
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Babies, bathwater and the LSB...
Posted by admin in Blog on 04 7th, 2010 | No Comments
7 April 2010 Yesterday saw the release of the latest business plan from the Legal Services Board, and, as could be predicted, it was suitably bullish about the future, the need for regulation of the profession in the interests of the consumer and the need to keep an eye on those regulator chappies who...
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LSB publishes new business plans...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
7 April 2010 The Legal Services Board yesterday published its business plan for 2010/2011. In the foreward to the report, LSB Chairman David Edmonds said that the LSB’s first year was “characterised by intense activity, robust debate and almost continuous change …… our second...
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Law Society condemns MoJ over libel plan...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
07 April 2010 The Law Society has issued a statement that the MoJ’s plans to change the way libel cases are paid for have been voted down in Parliament because of the hurried and inadequate way in which they were put together. Following the defeat of the Draft Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment)...
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You may see nothing of the mighty Quinn...
Posted by admin in Blog on 04 6th, 2010 | No Comments
6 April 2010 Last week’s announcement that professional indemnity insurers Quinn Insurance Limited – and its UK branch, Quinn Insurance Limited (UK) – has been placed into provisional administration has certainly raised many concerns in the legal sector. Quinn covers some 2,911 solicitors...
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LSB approves SRA’s qualified lawye...
Posted by admin in News Items on 04 6th, 2010 | Comments Off
6 April 2010 The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s new Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) regulations, due to be introduced in September 2010, have been approved by Legal Services Board (LSB). The new regulations will apply to internationally qualified lawyers and non-solicitor lawyers qualified...
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