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Help firms switch regulator by scrapping run-off rules, CILEx Regulation tells LSB
Tuesday, 1 December 2015Law firms that switch regulator should not be forced to buy six years of run-off insurance cover, CILEx Regulation has argued in a report for the Legal Services Board. It said that only firms which were actually closing should have to buy run-off cover.
Tags: CILEX Regulation, Indemnity insurance, Legal Services Board
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Regulation
BSB promises action after report finds “highly variable” standards of youth court advocacy
Friday, 20 November 2015The Bar Standards Board has accepted in principle all the recommendations of a hard-hitting report which found “highly variable” standards of advocacy in the youth courts. Only 52% of advocates thought they had sufficient knowledge of the youth justice system to do their job properly.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, CILEX Regulation
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Regulation
LSB: criminal advocacy reforms “should not be designed around” any particular group of lawyers
Wednesday, 7 October 2015It is important that government plans to enhance the quality of criminal defence advocacy in publicly funded cases “should not be designed around one particular professional group”, the Legal Services Board has warned. The comments can be read as coded concern that some of the proposals seem weighted in favour of barristers.
Tags: CILEX Regulation, Joint Advocacy Group, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
Quayle u-turn leaves CILEx Regulation searching for new chair
Thursday, 11 June 2015CILEx Regulation – the regulatory arm of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives – is searching for a new chairman after the man who was due to take over last week decided against doing so. In February, CILEx announced that Quinton Quayle, a former British ambassador to Thailand, had been appointed.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, CILEX Regulation
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
Regulate lawyers by “competence not title”, chair of CILEx Regulation says
Friday, 1 May 2015Alan Kershaw, chair of CILEx Regulation, has said lawyers should be regulated “by competence, not by title” and urged the different branches of the profession not to give up on common training.
Tags: CILEX Regulation, comparison websites, Education and training
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Regulation
First legal executives granted historic independent practice rights
Monday, 30 March 2015A member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives who specialises in conveyancing has become the first to receive independent practice rights. A probate specialist and a legal executive who runs his own immigration firm were also granted independent rights.
Tags: chartered legal executives, CILEX Regulation, conveyancing, immigration, practice rights, probate, reserved legal activities
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives
Regulation round-up: consumers to have 12 months to complain to LeO, plus SRA, LSB and IPS news
Tuesday, 24 March 2015The six-month time limit for clients to complain to the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) is to be doubled from this summer, it has announced. The new time limit, which takes effect from 9 July, runs from the date of receiving a final response from the lawyer.
Tags: CILEX Regulation, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
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Source of funds is where AML really gets tested
It’s a familiar story: a PDF of a bank statement lands in your inbox, your client leaves a cursory note explaining what some of the transactions mean, and you close the file.
Firms need to move faster on AI pricing
Law firms are trying to rethink pricing while still operating on business models fundamentally built around time.
The overlooked hate crime reform in Crime & Policing Act
Reforms introduced by the Crime and Policing Act 2026 mark a significant development in hate crime law in England and Wales, recognising hostility related to sex as an aggravated offence.
