‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to launch a review of its approach to solicitors’ continuing competence, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 9th July 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Automation in the legal profession will most probably be “a decades-long process” but artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining what it means to be a ‘great’ lawyer.’
Legal Futures, 6th July 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘ “Warfare no longer looks like a tank driving over a battlefield,” says the head of Army Legal Services. These days lawyers are on the frontline – in every sense.’
Law Society's Gazette, 22nd June 2020
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Alternative business structures (ABSs) are reshaping the boundaries of the law by emphasising the benefit of integrated professional services, rather than pure legal knowledge, a leading academic has argued.’
Legal Futures, 17th June 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘All providers of legal services, whether legally qualified or not, should be registered and regulated by a single regulator, a major review has concluded.’
Legal Futures, 11th June 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) is set to conduct a major review on the extent to which it can reform the regulatory regime – including the reserved legal activities (RLAs) – using its existing powers.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘New instructions have been running at about 70% of the pre-lockdown level over the past two and a half months, but there are definite signs of a revival, with conveyancing roaring back, new figures have shown.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The government is considering whether children in police stations should have to opt out of receiving legal advice, rather than opt in as now, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 4th May 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Changes to the list of reserved activities that only authorised lawyers can do has been floated as one way the ways legal regulation could be flexed to help the profession recover from the Covid-19 crisis.’
Legal Futures, 27th April 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The rate of change in the legal market makes it “increasingly difficult” for the regulatory framework laid down by the Legal Services Act to remain relevant, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned.’
Legal Futures, 20th April 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This document is intended to draw your attention to the serious risk to life that solicitors and suspects, in police stations, are facing during the COVID-19 crisis and to suggest ways to reduce them. It is not intended to be a definitive statement of what needs to be done. You may have other ideas which are equally or more valid. What is certain is that action needs to be taken if lives are to be saved. The protocol below is intended to assist solicitors to give appropriate legal advice to suspects, at the interview stage, when working remotely.’
Garden Court Chambers, 1st April 2020
Source: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has hit crisis point again after it was forced to backtrack on its request for a 20% budget rise, with the Legal Services Board (LSB) describing its performance as unacceptable.’
Legal Futures, 31st March 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In an important decision yesterday (27 February), Allen v Dodd & Co Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 258, the Court of Appeal held that if a person believes their conduct will probably not result in a breach of a contract they will not be liable for inducing a breach even if: (a) they knew there was a risk of breach; and (b) the court subsequently finds such a breach.’
Littleton Chambers, 28th February 2020
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘More use of fixed fees and an increase in the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) fining powers are among recommendations made today by the Legal Services Consumer Panel.’
Legal Futures, 19th March 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected a bid to strike out the claim by various public figures that the legal department of MGN Group knew about phone hacking at the Daily Mirror.’
Legal Futures, 11th March 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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