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Law firm loses FoI bid to learn names of complainants
Monday, 27 July 2015A law firm which demanded the details of people who had contacted the Solicitors Regulation Authority to allege misconduct has been firmly rebuffed by the Law Society’s freedom of information commissioner.
Tags: Freedom of Information Act
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FoI adjudicator accuses SRA of putting profession before public
Monday, 9 March 2015The Law Society’s outgoing Freedom of Information adjudicator has told the Solicitors Regulation Authority that it does not consider the public interest sufficiently in too readily refusing to release details of its investigations.
Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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SRA should reveal progress of malpractice investigations, says FoI adjudicator
Friday, 10 January 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority is keeping informants who allege malpractice by solicitors in the dark about the progress of their complaint, two years after the Law Society’s own freedom of information adjudicator urged that the problem should be addressed.
Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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