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BSB wins argument over case for entity regulation
Monday, 2 July 2012The Bar Standards Board narrowly defeated a motion proposed by a former Bar chairman that its plans for entity regulation are unhelpful to the justice system, in a debate held in London last week.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, bar standards board, Barristers, entity regulation, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Barristers, Latest news
Referral fee ban will not catch solicitors’ collective marketing schemes, Djanogly affirms
Friday, 29 June 2012Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has affirmed the government’s belief that the ban on referral fees will not catch solicitors’ collective marketing schemes, despite continuing concerns that the legislation does exactly that.
Tags: marketing, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
County court advocacy specialists become latest ABS
Thursday, 28 June 2012A law firm that specialises in providing advocacy services in every county court across the country yesterday became the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s eighth alternative business structure.
Tags: ABS, advocacy, Alternative business structures, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Tombola time for COLPs and COFAs
Thursday, 28 June 2012Beware the British summer – the season of storms, gales, flooded caravans, transport chaos, sporting disappointment and, if you’re not careful, one other seasonal surprise. At this time of year, many firms rally their troops with an office summer party. Often held outside, it seemed such a great idea all those dark, wet, cold months ago. Now that it’s light, wet and cold, don’t make the mistake of going on holiday without knowing who won the COLP raffle. Your post-holiday, back-to-work blues won’t be helped by finding that you drew the winning ticket in your absence.
Tags: COFA, COLP, compliance officer for finance and administration, compliance officer for legal practice, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Blog
Tribunal suspends first solicitor called to account for breaching SRA settlement agreement
Wednesday, 27 June 2012The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has for the first time sanctioned a solicitor who breached a regulatory settlement agreement that ended a Solicitors Regulation Authority investigation into him.
Tags: regulatory settlement agreement, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors
New QASA row erupts over role of solicitors in youth court cases
Tuesday, 26 June 2012A key section of the final consultation on the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates has been condemned as “misleading and inaccurate” by a member of the Bar Standards Board, amid controversy over advocacy standards in the youth courts.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Executives, Solicitors
In brief: regulators reassure firms over RBS ‘breaches’, £1m apprenticeships boost and more
Monday, 25 June 2012Our latest round-up of key news includes the SRA and CLC offering relief to solicitors in breach because of RBS/NatWest computer problems, £1m of government money for legal apprenticeships, a destination for dormant client money, the Co-op’s new will-writing partnership, and much more.
Tags: Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Co-op, conveyancing quality scheme, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, CQS, personal injury, Solicitors Accounts Rules, Solicitors Regulation Authority, will-writing
Posted in Accounts rules, Latest news, News In Brief
Version 4 of Handbook goes live as SRA promises no further COLP/COFA delay
Friday, 22 June 2012The fourth edition of the SRA Handbook in less than 10 months was published yesterday. It includes the delay in the introduction of the compliance officer regime, and the SRA has guaranteed that there will be no further hold-ups.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, COFA, COLP, compliance officer for finance and administration, compliance officer for legal practice, in-house lawyers, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, QASA, Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA Handbook
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, Solicitors
Everything you wanted to know about ABS applications but were literally afraid to ask
Friday, 22 June 2012Seven alternative business structures in more than five months does not seem to be a great achievement on the part of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and increasingly Legal Futures has been hearing complaints about delay and a lack of transparency in the process.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, MDP, multi-disciplinary practice, separate business rule, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Alternative business structures, Features
SDT throws out case against solicitor over SRA abuse of process
Wednesday, 20 June 2012The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has taken the highly unusual step of throwing out proceedings taken against a solicitor, finding that the actions of the Solicitors Regulation Authority constituted an abuse of process.
Tags: Solicitors Code of Conduct, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Solicitors