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CMC which “rented” its authorisation to personal injury marketing company fails to overturn ban
A claims management company has failed to overturn the cancellation of its authorisation, which was found to have been “rented” to a marketing company which operated a call centre to generate personal injury leads. A judge said it was conducting “no business of its own” when the Claims Management Regulator intervened.
April 17th, 2018
Advertising watchdog orders trade mark business to stop “UK’s top firm” claim
A business specialising in trade mark advice and registration must stop claiming to be the “UK’s no.1 trade mark service”, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled. It said Trade Mark Direct made the claim on the basis that it believed it had registered more applications than any other firm in the last three years.
April 11th, 2018
Cry freedom: SRA wants to become separate legal entity from Law Society
Legal regulators have urged the Legal Services Board to use its review of the internal governance rules to give them greater independence from their representative bodies. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said the rewrite of the rules should allow it to become a “separate legal entity” from the Law Society.
February 16th, 2018
Regulator cracks down on unauthorised holiday sickness CMCs as cold-calling ban reaches Commons
There has been a “significant decrease” in unauthorised businesses operating in the holiday sickness market, the Claims Management Regulator has reported. It comes as MPs debate the government’s surprise u-turn late last year to legislate for a ban on cold-calling.
January 22nd, 2018
Licensed conveyancers confident about growth in coming year, survey finds
More than half of firms of licensed conveyancers expect their workloads to increase over the next year, according to their regulator. Some 53% of firms expected volumes of work to increase over the next year, with only 10% anticipating a fall.
January 19th, 2018
Second accountancy body seeks right to allow members to do probate work
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is set to become the second accountancy body that enables its members – 90,000 of them in the UK – to provide probate services. If approved by the Legal Services Board, it will follow the lead of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
January 18th, 2018
Exclusive: Paralegal bodies split by “irreconcilable differences” as regulator pushes for expansion
One of the two paralegal bodies which developed the Professional Paralegal Register (PPR) to act as a voluntary regulator for the sector, has decided to pull out after only two years, it has emerged. The National Association of Licensed Paralegals withdrew this summer, citing “irreconcilable differences” over the values and purpose of the PPR.
December 8th, 2017
LSB rejects call to harmonise indemnity insurance and compensation rules
The Legal Services Board has rejected a call from its consumer panel to consider a centralised regime of financial protection for clients to replace what the panel called the “fragmented” nature of insurance and compensation arrangements across the different legal regulators.
December 1st, 2017
CMC which failed in its due diligence over text messages loses bid to overturn regulator’s £50,000 fine
A claims management company has failed to overturn a £50,000 fine imposed by the Claims Management Regulator last summer for breaching the rules relating to third-party referrals, misleading information and keeping proper records.
November 30th, 2017
LSB reveals “stream of disagreements” as it begins review of regulatory independence rules
A “steady stream of disagreements” between legal regulators and representative bodies means the rules governing their relationships may need to be rewritten, the Legal Services Board said yesterday. The oversight regulator said it had been notified of 30 disputes over the past three years.
November 10th, 2017
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