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Law firms face financial management duty
There should be a new core duty on financial management, along with requirements that firms disclose financial problems to their regulator, in the Solicitors Code of Conduct, the SRA has been advised.
How much should you tell clients about PII?
The Law Society has clarified to what extent solicitors should tell clients certain details about their professional indemnity insurance.
Cooper swaps in-house for her LPO provider
The in-house lawyer who made waves last year with a landmark legal process outsourcing agreement with CPA Global has now joined the outsourcing company.
India dominates LPO, but UK backing will help South Africa
India remains the top destination for legal process outsourcing (LPO), according to research by leading LPO consultancy Fronterion.
Licensed conveyancers seek litigation rights
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is set to apply to the Legal Services Board for the power to grant rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation to licensed conveyancers. It is part of a package of measures aimed at putting the CLC in the position to apply to become an alternative business structures licensing authority.
Costs draftsmen call for title protection
The Association of Law Costs Draftsmen is calling for the title of ‘law costs draftsmen’ to be protected as part of a modernisation push at the smallest of the approved regulators.
Scotland to regulate will-writers
The case to regulate will-writers in England and Wales is likely to strengthen with moves by the Scottish Executive to introduce regulation north of the border.
Survey: public thinks all will-writers are solicitors
Two in three members of the public believe that all will-writers are trained solicitors, research by the Fellowship of Professional Willwriters and Probate Practitioners has shown.
SRA reveals mortgage fraud crackdown
Emergency SRA inspections of firms where property fraud is suspected are estimated to have saved lenders £15-20m in the past nine months, the authority has announced.
Scots back independent regulation of lawyers
Seven in 10 Scots want independent regulation for lawyers, a survey by Which? has found. The Legal Services (Scotland) Bill – introducing similar reforms to the Legal Services Act 2007 south of the border – is in the early stages of its passage through the Scottish Parliament.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
