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Legal technology innovator Peppermint Technology is delighted to announce a partnership agreement with technology implementation expert Saturn27. Saturn27 has joined the Peppermint Academy Programme, Peppermint’s community of trusted delivery partners.

Thanks to a donation from Solicitors Own Software (SOS) and AED Locator, the first public access defibrillator (PAD) has been installed in the city of Bath at the Recreation Ground for the use of the rugby club, supporters, surrounding community and nearby residents. SOS donated the life-saving equipment in memory of Stephen Parry, a company director who died of a heart attack at just 52 years of age.

First Title Insurance plc has launched a new policy to protect homebuyers from potential exposure to new risks from the concealment of breaches of planning by sellers. The initiative comes in the wake of the Localism Act 2011, which was brought into force on 6 April this year, and created new powers for enforcement of breaches of planning control.

Peppermint Technology delivers continuous, not point-in-time, COFA and COLP risk management and reporting tools as part of the Peppermint platform. The platform provides compliance officers with the tools they need to support the new outcome-focused regulations. Unlike other standalone or bolt-on risk solutions the Peppermint platform manages risk directly from a central business platform therefore intelligently identifying and managing risks as the business changes.

The UK’s leading software company VTUK has announced that online ordering platform ETSOS is to be integrated into a one-stop solution software package for estate agents, Aquarius.

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Specialist Internet defamation solicitors Bains Cohen LLP and legal PR consultancy Byfield have teamed up to promote the results of a major survey which looks at online abuse and to support the first private prosecution brought by an individual against Internet trolls.

Legal technology innovator Peppermint Technology is delighted to support the development of the UK’s young talent by hiring four apprentices under the Microsoft-supported Apprenticeship Scheme.

Virtual Practices – the online software and accounting division of Solicitors Own Software (SOS) – will offer a free information kit to delegates at the Solicitor Sole Practitioners’ Group Conference. It is also available to sole practitioners who are unable to attend.

An expanding market, increased competition and the licencing of the first alternative business structures (ABSs), are leaving high street and traditional firms feeling they are facing a ‘David and Goliath’ scenario – so they need to choose their weapons carefully to outmanoeuvre their competition.