‘In this article, Amanda Savage KC and Ed Grigg analyse the recent High Court decision in Leggett & Others v American International Group UK Limited [2025] EWHC 278 (Comm). The decision repays close reading for professional indemnity lawyers and the insurance market more widely.’
4 New Square, 10th March 2025
Source: www.4newsquare.com
‘Legal education, training and regulation must be strengthened to stem a decline in ethical standards, the Legal Services Board has proposed. The oversight regulator wants to initiate a “significant shift” in how lawyers’ ethics are taught, overseen and supported in workplaces. This fresh approach is on the back of a growing body of “substantial evidence” that lawyers are unaware of their ethical requirements or even actively ignoring them.’
Law Society's Gazette, 6th March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘There should be a “fundamental alteration” in the way the legal sector approaches consumer vulnerability, taking an opt-out, rather than opt-in, approach, a study for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has argued.’
Legal Futures, 20th February 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘AI tools could be reaching the stage where they could be used as a cross-check for lawyers working on a legal issue, a new report has concluded.’
Law Society's Gazette, 20th February 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Legal Services Payment Orders – an underutilised tool?’
33 Bedford Row, 29th October 2024
Source: www.33bedfordrow.co.uk
‘Four out of five lawyers are currently using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools, according to new research – but the impact on pricing remains unclear.’
Legal Futures, 24th September 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a greater impact on legal services than the internet revolution, a roundtable sponsored by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 5th August 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The new Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, needs to recognise the need for an overhaul of the legal regulatory regime, the new chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel has argued.’
Legal Futures, 22nd July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The past weeks have brought two more High Court judgments considering the practice of deducting a percentage from an LSPO applicant’s costs provision by way of a “notional standard assessment”. The first, JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam), was a judgment of Cobb J doubling down on the practice. The second, KV v KV [2024] EWFC 165, was a judgment of Peel J, taking a more ambivalent approach, suggesting it be used as a “cross check” and highlighting that it may operate unfairly in some cases. Cobb J’s elevation to the Court of Appeal may see his approach becoming dominant. The unfairness caused by the “notional assessments” in LSPO applications has been explored by us previously. Here we argue that it is also conceptually flawed.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 11th July 2024
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘The Legal Services Act 2007 does not appear to provide a stable long-term framework for the regulation of the legal professions, the Justice Committee has warned.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd April 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Who lawyers choose to act for is not a regulatory issue – and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs to be clear on this, a leading legal regulatory specialist said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Ministers have asked the Legal Services Board (LSB) to outline how it plans to approach the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the sector by the end of April.’
Legal Futures, 16th February 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Consolidation of legal regulators “may be a good thing” if designed to achieve “the pulling together of knowledge, lessons, consumer research and engagement”, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said.’
Legal Futures, 22nd November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A groundbreaking study has found that using generative AI to support, rather than replace, humans results in “large and consistent increases in speed” in completing legal tasks.’
Legal Futures, 13th November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) will have multiple uses for litigators, including helping with costs budgeting and validating advice to clients, a leading partner at Eversheds Sutherland has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 3rd November 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘If there was a court case on whether society should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) or reject it, there would likely be a hung jury.’
BBC News, 19th October 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The first teenagers to take the legal services T-Level, a new vocational alternative to A-Levels, are to start courses this month at half a dozen schools and colleges.’
Legal Futures, 1st September 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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