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Training declarations to replace hours-based CPD
Thursday, 22 May 2014Solicitors will be required to make training declarations on their practicing certificate applications following the phasing out of hours-based Continuing Professional Development (CPD), the Solicitors Regulation Authority has decided.
Tags: contin, CPD, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Legal regulators face having to appoint ‘small business appeals champions’
Wednesday, 21 May 2014The Legal Services Board has told the government that if it wants to appoint ‘small business appeals champions’ for legal services, it should appoint them to the boards of the eight front-line regulators rather than the super-regulator.
Tags: appeals, bar standards board, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Other lawyers, Regulation, Solicitors
SRA set to push ahead with plan to scrap formal CPD scheme
Tuesday, 20 May 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority is pushing ahead with plans to abolish all of the prescriptive requirements around continuing professional development and leave it to solicitors and their firms to decide how best to ensure their continuing competence.
Tags: continuing professional development, CPD, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Kenny: Don’t give up on a single regulator – it will happen
Tuesday, 20 May 2014Chris Kenny, chief executive of the Legal Services Board, has said that the government is “not saying never” to the idea of a single regulator for the entire profession, and it was likely to happen anyway in the coming years.
Tags: Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Regulation
Solicitor struck off after US bribery conviction
Tuesday, 20 May 2014A solicitor has been struck off following his jailing for bribery charges in the US, in what is thought to be the first prosecution brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority where a solicitor was convicted overseas.
Tags: Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
Hudson: SRA insurance reform will “destroy high street conveyancing”
Monday, 19 May 2014Preventing mortgage lenders from claiming on solicitors’ compulsory indemnity insurance will “destroy high street conveyancing”, Law Society chief executive Des Hudson has said, in a wide-ranging speech on the state of the profession.
Tags: conveyancing, Law Society, mortgage lenders, professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
SRA chief executive outlines “back to basics” approach
Friday, 16 May 2014The new chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Paul Philip, has used one of his first public platforms since being appointed to outline the new “back to basics” approach he wants the regulator to take.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, MDP, Multi-disciplinary practices, separate business rule, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Solicitors
Don’t exploit clients’ lack of knowledge about wills, SRA tells solicitors
Thursday, 15 May 2014Solicitors must not exploit clients’ lack of knowledge about wills for their own advantage, the SRA has warned. In a newly issued guidance note, the regulator said clients should not be led to believe that appointing a solicitor as executor was “essential or indeed the norm”.
Tags: Solicitors Regulation Authority, will-writing
Posted in Client care, Competence, Latest news, Practice Management, Regulation, Solicitors
Yorkshire Building Society “will not reconsider” ban on unrated insurers
Thursday, 15 May 2014Yorkshire Building Society has said it has “no present intention” of reconsidering a ban it has decided to impose on firms with unrated indemnity insurers, even though the Solicitors Regulation Authority last week decided against one.
Tags: professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Majority of respondents to SRA consultation backed ban on unrated insurers
Monday, 12 May 2014The SRA has acknowledged that the majority of responses received to its consultation on banning unrated indemnity insurers favoured a ban. Of 31 responses, 18 were in favour and 13 against.
Tags: professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
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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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