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News in brief: Admiral Insurance "eyeing ABS", SRA referral fee summit, Jackson update and more
Wednesday, 14 December 2011Our regular round-up includes reports that Admiral is considering becoming an ABS, the SRA starting work on the referral fee ban, Labour’s latest LASPO amendments, the Information Commissioner mulling powers to force law firm audits, and a warning over getting involved in land-banking.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, ATE insurance, data protection, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Market monitor, News, News In Brief, Solicitors
MoJ rejects extending referral fee ban for now but Beith predicts it will have to reconsider
Tuesday, 13 December 2011The government has rejected a call by MPs to extend the proposed ban on referral fees beyond personal injury work – but a senior backbencher has predicted that it will have to return to the issue.
Tags: data protection, referral fees
Posted in News
Keeping the Information Commissioner off your back
Thursday, 1 December 2011The recent case of a Scottish advocate’s stolen, unencrypted laptop raises some important questions regarding data controller responsibility, portable media (not just laptops) and the options available for securing such media, explains Matt Torrens.
Tags: data protection
Posted in Features, News, Technology
Lawyers warned over security after QC is found to have breached data protection laws
Wednesday, 16 November 2011Lawyers have been warned over their duty to protect personal information, after a barrister was found to have breached the Data Protection Act for failing to encrypt a laptop containing sensitive personal data which was later stolen.
Tags: data protection
Posted in News, Technology
MPs call for wider referral fee ban and power to force data audits of law firms
Thursday, 27 October 2011The ban on referral fees should not be limited to personal injury, a committee of MPs has said. It also called for the Information Commissioner to have the power to compel audits of law firms to check for breaches of the Data Protection Act.
Tags: claims management companies, CMC, data protection, personal injury, referral fees
Posted in News, Solicitors
A4e receives landmark £60k fine for losing legal clients’ personal data
Thursday, 25 November 2010A company that runs two law centres has become one of the first two organisations ever to be fined for data protection breaches, after personal details of 24,000 clients were lost when an unencrypted laptop was stolen. A4e, a ‘social purpose’ company that jointly manages the Hull and Leicester community legal advice centres, was fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner.
Tags: data protection
Posted in Indemnity insurance, News
Protect and serve
Tuesday, 27 April 2010Jim Watson, managing director of data destruction service Shred Easy, and Daniel Berke, a fraud solicitor at Lewis Hymanson Small in Manchester and London, look at data protection among law firms and discuss the recent decision to allow the Information Commissioner’s Office to levy fines of up to £500,000 to organisations which seriously breach the Data Protection Act.
Tags: compliance, data protection
Posted in Features, Indemnity insurance
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Key cyber and data security questions to ask a legal IT provider
One of the growing priorities that law firms face when considering a legal technology provider is cyber and data security, such as their responsibilities and cyber incident management.
Navigating carer’s leave: A personal journey and call for change
The Carer’s Leave Act 2023, which came into force on 6 April 2024, was a pivotal moment for the UK. It allows workers to take up to five unpaid days off a year to carry out caring responsibilities.
House of Lords shines a spotlight on flawed DBA regulations
As the Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill was debated in the House of Lords last month, a number of peers shone the spotlight on the need to address the poor state of the rules governing DBAs.
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