ILEX Advocate-Managers...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 29th, 2010 | No Comments
29 December 2010 The Legal Services Board has approved an application by ILEX Professional Standards to amend the Rights of Audience Certification rules under which Fellows qualify as advocates. ILEX members who are authorised advocates can now also be ?managers? in legal practices and ?managers? who...
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Bar Council Calls for the Prohibition of...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 29th, 2010 | No Comments
29 December 2010 The Bar Council has submitted a joint response with the Criminal Bar Association to the Legal Services Board’s discussion document on the regulatory treatment of referral fees, referral arrangements and fee sharing, calling for referral fees to be scrapped. The Bar Council?s response...
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LeO consults on equality and human right...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 12 17th, 2010 | Comments Off
Legal Ombudsman Consultation Consultation closes 28 February 2011 The Legal Ombudsman is inviting comments and suggestions from both the general public and stakeholder groups with an interest in diversity issues concerning its commitment to valuing diversity and promoting equality throughout the organisation,...
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LSB proposes diversity transparency incr...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments
17 December 2010 The Legal Services Board (LSB) has announced proposals that would see all law firms and barristers chambers in England and Wales gathering and publishing data about the diversity of their workforce – encompassing all personnel from partners to support staff and all levels between....
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FLBA Warns of Consequences of Civil Lega...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments
17 December 2010 The Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), which represents family barristers in England and Wales, has warned of the potentially dangerous consequences of the planned cuts to civil legal aid. Stephen Cobb QC, FLBA Chair, has highlighted domestic violence and ?section 37? cases as two particular...
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Sole practice: modernising authorisation...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments
SRA Consultation Consultation closes 8 March 2011 The Solicitors Regulation Authority is seeking wherever possible to achieve “harmonisation” of its regulatory requirements. Where differences exist, the justification for them will be based on the degree of risk posed by different types of...
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LSB launches “secret” will s...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 13th, 2010 | No Comments
13 December 2010 The Legal Services Board, jointly with the Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors? Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have commissioned IFF Research to carry out research on the will-writing market to explore the experience of consumers getting wills from...
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Land Registry consultation on land regis...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Land Registry Consultation The consultation closes on Monday 21 February 2011. The Land Registry has launched a consultation on its proposed changes to land registration legislation to take account of changes made by the Legal Services Act 2007. The Legal Services Act 2007 makes provision for the regulation...
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Bar Council chair calls for diversificat...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
7 December 2010 Peter Lodder QC, incoming Chairman of the Bar Council has called for publicly funded barristers to diversify their practices. Lodder, who takes over as Chairman of the Bar from Nicholas Green QC on 1 January 2011, said during his inaugural address that whilst he wishes to “re-assure...
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Conveyancing rights for ILEX members...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments
ILEX Professional Standards Consultation Consultation closes 24 December 2010 The Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) as an approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007, and operating through ILEX Professional Standards Ltd (IPS) is proposing to make an application to become an approved regulator...
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Law Society calls for greater ethics emp...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments
7 December 2010 Following the announcement of the review of legal services education and training by the main legal regulators, the Law Society has called for there to be a greater focus on ethics in the Qualifying Law Degree and for the development of more robust systems for assuring quality in the...
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Future client financial protection arran...
Posted by admin in Consultations on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments
SRA Consultation Consultation closes 28 February 2011 The purpose of this consultation is to enable the Solicitors Regulation Authority to seek views on specific proposals for amendments to its client financial protection arrangements from October 2011 and on further changes being considered for implementation...
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SRA proposes major changes to insurance ...
Posted by admin in News Items on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments
07 December 2010 The SRA has published a number of proposals as to how it will could deal with issues relating to professional indemnity insurance (PII). The proposals include: removing the single renewal date for PII for firms from October 2011, so that they can renew cover at any time of the year, ending...
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