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Consumers welcome quality assurance for advocates but say scheme has big failings
Friday, 12 November 2010Mandatory quality assurance for criminal advocates is welcome but the scheme currently proposed by the legal profession falls short in several significant ways, the Legal Services Consumer Panel said today. Among the problems are a failure to consider consumer needs, weaker standards than had been consulted on, and allowing advocates to choose which cases they are assessed on.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Joint Advocacy Group, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Consumer panel, Legal Executives, News, Solicitors
Edmonds backs BSB as advocacy regulator; MR warns over “consumer fundamentalism”
Sunday, 7 November 2010The Bar Standards Board (BSB) should be the sole regulator for advocacy, the chairman of the Legal Services Board has said. Speaking at a BSB-organised session at Saturday’s Bar Council annual conference in London, David Edmonds said he agreed with the Master of Rolls, Lord Neuberger, who had earlier told the conference that the number of regulators “all regulating [advocacy] is ridiculous” and that if the 2007 Legal Services Act “does not lead to activity-based regulation, it will have failed”.
Tags: advocacy, bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Exclusive: regulators begin recruitment hunt after resignations
Friday, 16 July 2010Two of the legal profession’s regulators are to begin recruitment exercises following senior resignations, Legal Futures can reveal. Mandie Lavin is stepping down as director of the Bar Standards Board, while Nick Smedley has resigned from the board of ILEX Professional Standards.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards
Posted in Barristers, Legal Executives, News
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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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