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Revealed: LSB’s contingency plan to regulate ABSs directly
Tuesday, 6 April 2010The Legal Services Board is making contingency plans to regulate alternative business structures itself if none of the current approved regulators are up to the task, it has emerged. The LSB’s 2010/11 business plan, published today, says that it will scope out the requirements for direct licensing during the summer.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Legal Services Board
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board
Conflict over burden of proof delays SRA’s new powers to fine and rebuke solicitors
Tuesday, 6 April 2010The Legal Services Board has delayed a decision on whether the civil standard of proof should apply to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s new powers to publicly rebuke and fine solicitors because of concerns raised by the Law Society and Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Tags: Institute of Legal Executives, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
LSB approves SRA’s new transfer scheme
Tuesday, 6 April 2010The Solicitors Regulation Authority has overcome a raft of concerns from the Legal Services Board to win approval for the new Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme. Some 26% of new solicitors in 2009 were either former barristers or international lawyers.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
LSB tells bar regulator to up its game
Thursday, 1 April 2010The Legal Services Board has told barristers’ regulator that it will need to up its game – and perhaps embrace outcomes-focused regulation – to keep pace with liberalisation of the bar. “We expect that the BSB will invest in its skills and regulatory capacity,” it said.
Tags: bar standards board, Legal Services Board
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Regulation
Man in the middle
Tuesday, 30 March 2010Now the Legal Services Board has taken on its full powers to supervise the legal profession, Legal Futures Editor Neil Rose talks to its chairman, David Edmonds, to see what lawyers can expect of it.
Tags: Legal Services Board
Posted in Features, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board
Costs draftsmen call for title protection
Tuesday, 9 February 2010The Association of Law Costs Draftsmen is calling for the title of ‘law costs draftsmen’ to be protected as part of a modernisation push at the smallest of the approved regulators.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Regulation
Posted in Latest news, Other lawyers, Regulation
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Mind the (justice) gap: Why are RTAs going up but claims still down?
The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the latest government data.
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.
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