Law Society Gazette 2 March 2015

LSB: Cut red tape to help in-house

‘Unnecessary’ restrictions on the country’s 25,000-plus in-house lawyers should be swept away to promote innovation and improve access to justice. That is the view of the profession’s oversight regulator, which has called on frontline regulators either to justify restrictive practising rules on in-house solicitors or get rid of them.

3 March 2005

Bar’s post-Clementi shake-up

The Bar Council unveiled proposals to separate its regulatory and representative functions in response to the recommendations made by Sir David Clementi in his review of legal services. The shake-up would see the creation of an independent Bar Standards Board, completely ring-fenced from representative interests within the Bar Council.

1 March 1995

Wood case burns out

Peggy Wood, the 79-year-old pensioner who has fought a battle with the Law Society for 16 years, lost yet another round in the Court of Appeal this week. The three judges upheld a 1993 decision that the Society did not owe Ms Wood a duty of care in its investigation of a complaint she made about her solicitors.

13 March 1985

Relations with estate agents

While several solicitors have made it clear that they wish to extend their practices to include property selling in some way, others have said they prefer to leave property selling to estate agents, provided the profession is in a position to retain the conveyancing. Accordingly, the concept of ‘solicitor-led property packages’ has been developed.

5 March 1975

Industry Bill: stand up and be counted

The first thing the bill does is to establish a statutory public corporation to be called the National Enterprise Board. It will establish new enterprises or assist existing ones, promote reorganisation, extend public ownership into profitable areas of manufacturing industry, promote industrial democracy and administer shareholdings and other property in public ownership.

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