by Rob | Jun 30, 2014 | News
A dispute concerning a property transfer between a mother and son has been decided at the High Court.
by Rob | Jun 30, 2014 | News
The Law Society is to spend £400,000 on its annual advertising campaign, which will this year be focused mainly on a range of private client services from solicitors.
by Rob | Jun 30, 2014 | News
The Law Society has contacted the police and Solicitors Regulation Authority asking for further investigations after payday lender Wonga was found to have sent letters appearing to come from law firms.
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
Following recent news reports into misleading debt collection practices, the Law Society has asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate Wonga.
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
We are not quite sure what the journalist Harry Mount has against high street estate agents, but here he is – having another pop, this time in the Spectator magazine.
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
There has been a muted response from agents and property insiders to new measures by Bank of England government Mark Carney to stop the boom turning into a bubble.
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
Earlier this month 10,000 black-cab drivers brought the capital to a standstill by blockading Trafalgar Square. They were re protesting Uber, the American mobile phone app that locates the nearest available mini-cab and calculates the fare by distance and...
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
The Law Society is planning to use the European Court of Justice’s ruling on the right to be forgotten online to challenge anti-solicitor websites.
by Rob | Jun 27, 2014 | News
Andrew Caplen, Law Society vice president, appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight programme last night to discuss the legal and consumer aspects of the Wonga case. Watch the broadcast.
by Rob | Jun 26, 2014 | News
Law firm network Connect2Law is to live on separately from Slater & Gordon-owned Pannone after a deal struck with its former head, David Jabbari – with S&G launching its own referral network at the same time.
by Rob | Jun 26, 2014 | News
Alternative legal services provider Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has launched a Manchester ‘hub’, its first outside of London, in a bid to expand its ‘on site’ model of placing freelance lawyers into companies.
by Rob | Jun 26, 2014 | News
The risible sanction imposed on Wonga for harassing borrowers through fake law firms shows how little has changed in the City.
by Rob | Jun 26, 2014 | News
Legislation to protect partners under whistleblowing laws is ‘unnecessary’ following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last month, the government said today.
by Rob | Jun 25, 2014 | News
Wonga has been ordered to pay £2.6m in compensation after sending letters to customers in arrears from non-existent law firms.
by Rob | Jun 25, 2014 | News
The AA announced it has expanded its legal services provision into conveyancing.
by Rob | Jun 25, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority named its first first non-lawyer chair today. Enid Rowlands, UK chair of charity Victim Support, will succeed current chair Charles Plant in the role from January 2015.
by Rob | Jun 24, 2014 | News
The Law Society has urged the Solicitors Regulation Authority to maintain some form of independent check over firms’ accounts.
by Rob | Jun 24, 2014 | News
Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) will join the group’s funeral and insurance businesses in a new ‘consumer services division’ following a major shakeup of the loss-making alternative business structure.
by Rob | Jun 24, 2014 | News
The AA – which research found recently to be the UK’s most trusted brand – has launched a conveyancing service in its first move since receiving an alternative business structure (ABS) licence in late 2013.
by Rob | Jun 24, 2014 | News
Firms were rated according to the frequency they updated Twitter content, their willingness to engage in dialogue, their use of images and video, and their consistency of tweeting.
