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Minister calls for CMC and referral fee crackdown but gives hope to injured children
Monday, 11 July 2011Justice minister Lord McNally has called for a crackdown on claims management companies and said the government is sympathetic to a referral fee ban, as the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill enters its committee stage tomorrow.
Tags: Jackson report, legal aid, referral fees, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
Posted in News, Regulation, Solicitors
Personal injury bucks double-digit slump in civil litigation
Thursday, 7 July 2011Low-level personal injury claims bucked the trend that saw a dramatic double-digit dip in the volume of civil litigation during 2010, Ministry of Justice figures have shown. The 2010 statistics show an almost universal fall in the volume of work going through all levels of UK civil courts last year.
Tags: Jackson report, legal aid, personal injury, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
Posted in News
The Battle of LASPO, starring referral fees as the Trojan horse
Tuesday, 5 July 2011The Ministry of Justice seems in undue haste to push the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill – snappily nicknamed LASPO – through the House of Commons. Having broken parliamentary convention by not allowing two weekends between presenting the bill to Parliament and the second reading last week, the government wanted it to start the committee stage today. However, after protests from the opposition, this will now begin next Tuesday.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, Jackson report, Law Society, legal aid, referral fees, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
Posted in Blog
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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A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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