Winners announced: Land Data Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence 2020
Over 140 local authority Local Land Charges Officers who carry out land and property searches required for conveyancing transactions, attended the 13th Land Data Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence gala dinner, hosted by comedian Zoe Lyons.
Unethical Stories: spilling the beans on the worst ethical decisions made by other solicitors
Mena Ruparel, co-author of our forthcoming book So You Think You’re an Ethical Solicitor: The new SRA standradsa and regulations in action, has launched a new podcast – Unethical Stories – in which she speaks to lawyers about daily ethical decision-making in practice.
Reasons to meet Quill at next week’s Compliance & Regulation Conference
Reflecting on the past four months, there have been fairly monumental changes in the legal sector. Beginning on 25th November with the revised SRA Accounts Rules; ending with the 5th AML Directive on 10th January followed by two months’ grace to get your operations shipshape.
Proclaim Practice Management enables growth for the UK’s largest family law firm
We felt that Eclipse provided a solution in Proclaim that would evolve as the firm did. Stowe Family Law is the UK’s largest specialist family law firm – our goal was to become even bigger and we knew Proclaim would scale along with our own growth.
Disbursements and expenses: VAT and its application
The legal profession is no stranger to the complications of legal accounting rules. In the past few months, law firms UK wide have been getting to grips with revisions to existing accounts regulations. Now, with recent developments in case law, not least the judgment made in Brabners LLP v HMRC, treatment of VAT for disbursements and expenses has been brought into the spotlight.
Landmark introduces both active and inactive consumer credit data for probate professionals
Landmark Information, the property, land and environmental data specialist, has today announced that, for the first time, probate professionals can now access Experian CAIS (Consumer credit Account Information Sharing) data as part of its trusted all-in-one LandmarkFAS (Financial Asset Search) service. This means that LandmarkFAS now supports the reconciliation of both active and inactive assets and debts, in one combined report, saving time and money for probate teams; all from one single order.
Onshore wind is back on the agenda
Now the government have published the detail of the proposed changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, it’s clear that one barrier to onshore wind is likely to be removed (the subsidy issue). Larger scale wind developments have not been eligible for subsidies since April 2016, a move which contributed to an effective moratorium on onshore wind development.
Compliance & Technology – it can be (relatively) easy!
By now you will have heard plenty about the changes to the SRA Standards and Regulations that came into effect in November. This brings with it a good opportunity to take a look at your firm as a whole and question if the technology you use allows you to adhere to regulation, whilst still remaining profitable and providing the best service to clients.
