All Regulation and compliance articles – Page 107
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Opinion
Unclear on transparency
How much more transparent can solicitors be? We have always been required to give clients an estimate of likely costs at the outset.
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NewsPublic opposed to SRA handbook proposals
Ipsos-Mori survey shows the public likely to be overwhelmingly opposed to removal of key client protections.
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OpinionOne size does not fit all
The big four’s successful business model relies on the cross-selling of products.
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NewsTop-tier barristers set creates BSB entity
6 Pump Court originally designed entity to focus on criminal legal aid work.
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NewsLawyers aghast at SRA plans to lift cold-calling ban
Rule on unsolicited calls would disappear from the code of conduct under plans to drastically slim down the handbook.
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NewsFirm helped clients avoid £1.3m stamp duty payments
Gloucestershire firm BPE Solicitors agrees to regulatory settlement following SRA investigation.
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NewsCompensation fund payouts tumble by £5.9m in a year
The number of claims coming into the fund also falls, from 1,842 in 2014 to 1,174 last year.
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NewsComparison sites need access to firms’ past mistakes – SRA chief
‘People outside the sector would be surprised at how contentious this is proving for legal service providers.’
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NewsScrap the SRA and create a single regulator, says LSB
Oversight regulator wants fundamental change – including of the professional title of solicitor.
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NewsNew legal firms set to top 1,000 this year
From 1 January to 31 July, 612 new business entities were authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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NewsChancery Lane hits out at code of conduct reform plan
SRA has failed to make a convincing case for two-tier code, Law Society says.
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NewsBar Council criticises ‘burdensome’ CPD scheme
Proposals ‘bear little relevance to the requirements of practice’.
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NewsSRA sanctions lawyer convicted of distributing indecent images
Stephen Coleclough must notify Solicitors Regulation Authority of any future work.
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NewsLaw Society urges profession to give views on ‘dramatic’ SRA changes
SRA consultations on separate codes of conduct and simplifying accounts rules both close later this month.
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News
Firm fined after keeping clients in the dark about third parties
Meade Law Ltd made no communication with consumers about the use of two businesses for services related to PI claims.
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OpinionAccounts rules changes – ignoring lawyers
The profession, clients and the SRA alike would struggle to cope with the regulator’s radical change to the definition of ‘client money’.
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NewsSociety hits back at ‘misconceived’ price transparency call
Narrow focus on price potentially damaging to clients, Chancery Lane says.
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NewsSolicitor agrees settlement over abusive language
Solicitors Regulation Authority says Daniel Robert Johnson also sent an inappropriate email to another solicitor.
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NewsEnterprise firms unable to secure new PII put ‘on notice’
A third of the 43 firms covered by collapsed insurer Enterprise have failed to secure a new policy.
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NewsForce solicitors to publish prices, watchdog urges
Consumer panel calls for law firms to be subject to dentist-style regulation.