by Rob | Nov 9, 2015 | News
Kathryn Stone, a police complaints commissioner, is to become chief ombudsman at the Legal Ombudsman in January.
by Rob | Nov 9, 2015 | News
Law firms are feeling more confident about their business prospects than at any time since at least the mid-1990s, according to a survey published today.
by Rob | Nov 6, 2015 | News
Roughly one in three homes are bought with cash – the highest level for over 60 years.
by Rob | Nov 6, 2015 | News
Law firms should be braver in asking potential clients for work and making sure they follow up leads, the new chair of LawNet has said.
by Rob | Nov 5, 2015 | News
Being able to perform all the conveyancing tasks within a single platform means that conveyancers are able to evolve into working smarter, improve efficiencies and ultimately drive profitability.
by Rob | Nov 5, 2015 | News
New accounting requirements could mean law firms ultimately find it more difficult to borrow money.
by Rob | Nov 5, 2015 | News
Proposals for a new law governing state agencies’ interception of communications lack statutory protection for legal privilege, it emerged today as the government published a long-awaited draft investigatory powers bill.
by Rob | Nov 4, 2015 | News
A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory – consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School – is giving a stark warning that Greater London’s housing market could crash, possibly in 2017.
by Rob | Nov 4, 2015 | News
People looking to buy a home should be given more up-front information about the property’s flood risk, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) will say ahead of its Biennial Conference this week.
by Rob | Nov 4, 2015 | News
The Legal Services Board have agreed to amend the method the Solicitors Regulation Authority use to authorise sole practitioners.
by Rob | Nov 4, 2015 | News
The one-time Chief Legal Ombudsman, Adam Sampson, has hit back at his former employer’s version of his departure, telling MPs that it included statements that “risk accusations of misleading Parliament”.
by Rob | Nov 3, 2015 | News
The Bold Legal Group has just signed up its 400th member, Buckles Solicitors, who have offices in Nottingham, Peterborough and Stamford.
by Rob | Nov 3, 2015 | News
The oversight legal services regulator has asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority to explain why it wants to remove a condition for authorising alternative business structures.
by Rob | Oct 31, 2015 | News
A study of 166 agents showed that a culture of free referrals means that 62% do not receive a penny for referrals they make, while 18% have not tried to raise income this way – or if they had, they’d failed.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2015 | News
A new report warns that London’s property market is at huge risk of being a bubble.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2015 | News
Lest anyone should still be under any illusions, it is an undeniable fact that the prevention of money laundering, and the risk associated with the often overlapping topic of terrorist financing, is of great national concern.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2015 | News
Halloween 2015 will mark the beginning of the end of the hours-based CPD year.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2015 | News
Rather than feeling threatened by accountants’ move into legal services, law firms should set up alternative business structures and compete with them, the president of the Law Society has said.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2015 | News
A firm with ambitions to buy 60 high street practices by 2020 has secured funding for a new year shopping spree.
by Rob | Oct 29, 2015 | News
The Land Registry says the average house price in England and Wales now costs £186,553, an annual increase of 5.3 per cent.
