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SRA investigating nine criminal law firms over failures in advice to asylum seekers
Tuesday, 26 August 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is investigating nine criminal law firms over failures in advice to asylum seekers, it has emerged. The Criminal Cases Review Commission submitted a confidential report to the regulator earlier this year after the convictions of 19 asylum seekers were overturned on appeal.
Tags: asylum, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
LSB praised for scuppering indemnity cover cut
Friday, 22 August 2014The Legal Services Board has been praised for extending the time limit for its decision on whether to approve plans to cut the minimum indemnity limit for law firms, which meant the Solicitors Regulation Authority was unable to implement it this year.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
SRA set to open up solicitor register to comparison websites
Thursday, 21 August 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority has committed to opening up its register of solicitors to comparison websites, while the Legal Ombudsman has today made its decisions available in a downloadable format.
Tags: Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Intellectual Property Regulation Board, IPReg, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Consumer Panel, LeO, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Consumer panel, Latest news, Solicitors
Government approves standards for legal apprenticeships
Thursday, 21 August 2014The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has approved the standards for its new legal apprenticeships, allowing young people to qualify as solicitors, chartered legal executives, licensed conveyancers and paralegals through workplace-based training.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, CILEX, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Executives, Other lawyers, Regulation, Solicitors
SRA abandons indemnity cover cut this year after LSB warning
Tuesday, 19 August 2014The Legal Services Board (LSB) has extended the time it has given itself to decide on the proposed cut in the minimum indemnity cover limit for law firms from 10 October this year to 17 August 2015.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board
SRA to investigate asylum advice after judges overturn convictions
Thursday, 14 August 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to investigate the quality of legal advice provided to asylum seekers, in part because of concerns expressed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, it has emerged.
Tags: asylum, immigration, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Police Federation solicitor set to be investigated by SRA
Thursday, 14 August 2014A solicitor who advised the Police Federation is set to be investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) amid allegations of police misconduct over the death of a man during a drugs search.
Tags: Crown Prosecution Service, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Second local authority ABS: we are not a threat to law firms
Wednesday, 13 August 2014HB Public Law, the shared legal service set up by Harrow and Barnet Councils, has been granted an alternative business structure licence by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, local authorities, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Market monitor
First local authority ABS receives green light
Friday, 8 August 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority has finally licensed the first local authority alternative business structure (ABS), after approving the collaborative law firm set up by two Buckinghamshire local authority legal teams, Legal Futures can reveal.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Will Wonga-gate put the morals and ethics back into debt collection?
Friday, 8 August 2014The recent headlines about Wonga, Lloyds and other large institutional organisations using fictitious law firms as a means of ‘upping the ante’ with debtors has really focused minds on the morals and ethics adopted by such organisations.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, bogus law firms, Solicitors Regulation Authority
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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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