by Rob | Sep 15, 2015 | News
The SRA’s plans to relax the rules around accountants’ reports have been formally approved by the Legal Services Board, meaning that around 1,000 more law firms will not have to submit one in future.
by Rob | Sep 14, 2015 | News
We’re all familiar with ‘gazumping’ – most us have been ‘gazumped’ or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it is by no means an uncommon one.
by Rob | Sep 14, 2015 | News
I have over the past 5 years worked hard to introduce efficiencies as well as measures to combat the increasing risks which continue to arise. Much of the work has centred around the development of an ‘in house’ risk and case management system. I along with my...
by Rob | Sep 11, 2015 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to press ahead with a consultation on extending the use of third-party managed accounts as an alternative to the client account.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2015 | News
Solicitors should be able to carry out certain consumer credit activities under SRA authorisation as long as their activities are central to the legal services they provide, the SRA Board has agreed.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2015 | News
The SRA Compensation Fund paid out over £23.8 million in the year to 31 October 2014, latest figures reported to the SRA Board meeting recently reveal.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2015 | News
Paul Philip, chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, has hit back after the regulator’s indemnity insurance reforms were fiercely criticised by the Law Society.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2015 | News
The introduction of third-party managed accounts as an alternative to traditional client accounts will be postponed by at least a year to the end of 2016, the Solicitors Regulation Authority board decided yesterday.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2015 | News
Solicitors will be able to carry out certain consumer credit activities under the wing of the Solicitors Regulation Authority – a year after the regulator proposed dropping the responsibility altogether.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2015 | News
The residential director at Mullucks Wells in West Essex and East Hertfordshire, William Wells, has contacted Estate Agent Today to highlight what he considers “a relatively dramatic change” by some mortgage lenders.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2015 | News
Recent studies demonstrating the cost of conveyancing over the last decade may suggest a greater cost in terms of risk for those in the field during 2015.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2015 | News
Consumers with grievances about a solicitor could have an unlimited time to bring a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman under changes required to meet an EU directive.
by Rob | Sep 8, 2015 | News
The first independent financial adviser to set up a law firm from scratch has added an estate agency to work alongside its alternative business structure.
by Rob | Sep 7, 2015 | News
A free rival to conveyancing portal Veyo, called Free2Convey, is to be launched by the Legal Software Suppliers Association at the end of this month.
by Rob | Sep 7, 2015 | News
The new Lasting Power of Attorney process, provided by the Office of the Public Guardian in July, removes certain safeguards that could lead to abuse of the system.
by Rob | Sep 7, 2015 | News
The Law Society has alerted solicitors to the implications of a new law affecting private landlords and agents in Wales, part of a growing canon of Wales-only legislation.
by Rob | Sep 4, 2015 | News
Legal apprenticeships funded by the government are on course to start next September, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers have confirmed.
by Rob | Sep 4, 2015 | News
The Apprenticeship Standards to qualify as solicitors, paralegals, or chartered legal executives are part of a package of 59 apprenticeship standards announced by Prime Minister David Cameron last month.
by Rob | Sep 4, 2015 | News
Co-operative Legal Services made a small profit in the first half of 2015 as it continued to edge away from its struggles of the past two years.
by Rob | Sep 3, 2015 | News
An unusual story of hard-to-sell homes has emerged from Northumberland where a kind of new town, established in the 1960s, is causing headaches for estate agents.
