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Lawyers and consumers at odds over control of appointments to the SRA
Monday, 7 April 2014The Law Society found itself at loggerheads with the Legal Services Consumer Panel last week after the pair placed themselves on opposite sides of the debate over who should run the process of choosing the chairman and board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Tags: Law Society, Legal Services Board, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Consumer panel, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, News, Solicitors
Sir Michael Pitt to be new LSB chairman
Friday, 21 March 2014Senior civil servant Sir Michael Pitt will take over from David Edmonds as chairman of the Legal Services Board (LSB), it has been announced. Mr Pitt has no legal background and was chief executive of the Planning Inspectorate for three years from March 2011.
Tags: Legal Services Board
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, News
SDT takes wrecking ball to LSB’s review of disciplinary regimes
Monday, 17 March 2014The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has condemned the recent Legal Services Board recommendation of a civil standard of proof for use across disciplinary tribunals as “looking like a small tail wagging a large dog”.
Tags: bar standards board, Costs Standards Board, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Faculty Board, ILEX Professional Standards, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Other lawyers, Solicitors
Edmonds urges Law Society and Bar Council to accept change in interests of their members
Wednesday, 12 March 2014The attitude of “some in positions of immense responsibility” in the legal profession represents a “direct threat” to an innovative future for legal services, the chairman of the Legal Services Board has claimed.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Bar Council, Law Society, Legal Services Board
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Board
LSB hits out at “jumble” of disciplinary regimes, but admits it can do little to improve them
Monday, 10 March 2014The sanctions and appeals regimes of the frontline regulators are an inconsistent “jumble” of different powers that may protect lawyers rather than consumers, according to the Legal Services Board.
Tags: bar standards board, Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service, Costs Lawyer Standards Board, First Tier Tribunal, ILEX Professional Standards, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, Legal Services Board, Soilcitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, News, Other lawyers, Regulation, Solicitors
Grayling gives accountants ABS and probate green light
Friday, 7 March 2014The Lord Chancellor yesterday approved the application by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) to become a regulator of probate services and licensing authority for alternative business structures.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, ICAEW, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Legal Services Board, probate, reserved legal activities, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
LSB presses on with statutory guidance forcing regulators to liberalise education and training
Wednesday, 5 March 2014Statutory guidance that requires legal regulators to move away from assuming would-be lawyers have to spend a certain amount of time training before they qualify was published yesterday by the Legal Services Board.
Tags: bar standards board, legal education and training review, Legal Services Board, LETR
Posted in Barristers, hrtraining, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Other lawyers, Solicitors
LSB and Law Society on new collision course over SRA appointments
Friday, 21 February 2014The Legal Services Board is heading for another confrontation with the Law Society after proposing to take away its responsibility for appointing the chairman and board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Tags: internal governance rules, Law Society, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
LSB to impose controversial lay chair requirement on regulators
Thursday, 20 February 2014The frontline regulators will be required to have lay chairs in future after the Legal Services Board (LSB) pressed ahead with its controversial change to the internal governance rules.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, internal governance rules, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Other lawyers, Solicitors
QASA claimants bid to fight on to Court of Appeal
Wednesday, 19 February 2014The legal challenge to the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) is not yet dead after it emerged that the claimants have gone to the Court of Appeal to seek permission to appeal.
Tags: Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, 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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