by Rob | Jun 10, 2014 | News
The legal services watchdog is to use FoI requests to extract more data on the performance of lawyers.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2014 | News
The SRA has announced a wide-ranging programme of reform and the Law Society is urging its members to participate in the consultation. There is only a limited time to act, so please respond soon.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2014 | News
The Law Society is looking for case studies of clients with stories to tell as part of a campaign to promote high street firms and raise awareness of the new Find a Solicitor website.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2014 | News
In a preview of what may be a big debate leading up to the general election, the housing expert writing a Labour-commissioned report wants more land released for existing towns and cities to grow and council borrowing extended to allow more homes to be built.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2014 | News
The government announced over the weekend that it is to ban lawyers from “encouraging people to make claims” by offering them upfront incentives like cash or iPads.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has cut the number of law firms failing to hand over data on the diversity of their staff from 1,106 to 108
by Rob | Jun 6, 2014 | News
Small firms and sole practitioners could be removed from conveyancing panels if the Solicitors Regulation Authority goes ahead with its indemnity insurance reforms, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has warned.
by Rob | Jun 6, 2014 | News
The government may look again at the question of whether to regulate will-writing, the chief executive of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has indicated.
by Rob | Jun 6, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has slashed its backlog of alternative business structure (ABS) licensing applications from 142 in January 2013 to 52 in April this year, it has emerged.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
Peter Ambrose, who heads up major conveyancing firm The Partnership, said that in two cases, Halifax has stepped in to prevent completion taking place on the dates agreed.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
The Law Society has called on solicitors to respond to a clutch of SRA consultations on reforms that Chancery Lane warns will damage both the profession and clients.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
The government intends to press on with major changes to Land Registry of England and Wales, today’s Queen’s Speech to parliament confirmed.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
The Lord Chancellor has set the Legal Services Board (LSB) the task of working towards its own abolition as part of a push to reduce the burden of regulation on the legal profession, he revealed yesterday.
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
Should a conveyancer carry out a personal search or a full official search?
by Rob | Jun 5, 2014 | News
Almost a fifth of firms have reported “failures in competent legal service delivery” in the last 12 months, a major study for the Solicitors Regulation Authority has found.
by Rob | Jun 4, 2014 | News
A well-known personal injury firm has been ordered to stop running a TV advert which directed clients to its NHSLaw.co.uk website, on the grounds that the public might confuse it with the National Health Service.
by Rob | Jun 4, 2014 | News
The firm, created by Leicester-based Community Advice and Law Service (CALS) a year ago, has found the going tough, but is hopeful that income from private client work will be flowing to its parent body by the end of this year.
by Rob | Jun 4, 2014 | News
“Corrupt lawyers” who help who organised crime gangs and hide behind a “veneer of respectability” will be targeted by a new offence, the Home Office announced yesterday.
by Rob | Jun 4, 2014 | News
Revenue at private equity-backed north-west firm Knights grew 28% to £12m in 2013/14 – with the rise attributed to the firm’s first full year as an alternative business structure (ABS).
by Rob | Jun 3, 2014 | News
Following an intensive tender process, growing Midlands law firm Shakespeares has successfully won renewed and extended contracts with Coventry Building Society’s legal panel to deliver re-mortgaging and conveyancing services.
