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In this, the third blog of my series, I focus on what lawyers in the UK can do to improve access to justice through greater professional stewardship.

What is the view on AI from conveyancers themselves? Based on a Dye & Durham’s roundtable discussion on AI, the answer is: it depends.

An AI agent is difficult to supervise. By design, it works in the background. It means a solicitor can be held responsible for work they had no real means to oversee.

If your firm is hesitating on AI, it’s almost never the technology that’s in the way. What stalls adoption is everything that surrounds the tool.

Buyers and sellers don’t judge their experience by the number of digital platforms they use or the technology operating behind the scenes.

The Legal Services Consumer Panel has renewed its call for a single regulator to replace the eight approved regulators currently governing legal services.

Why do council tenants appear to wait longer for disrepair to be resolved, and what does that tell us about the changing relationship between landlords, tenants and accountability?

Following an initial pilot in 2025 that returned encouraging results, phase 2 of the GTA ADR scheme is due to begin in September 2026.

For years, the legal profession has talked of moving away from the billable hour to value-based pricing without quite managing it.

If your cost-per-click has crept up again this year, you’ve probably assumed the market simply got more expensive. That’s the wrong way to read what’s happening.