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Solicitors Regulation Authority

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Name: Solicitors Regulation Authority

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

File Surgical Error Claims through Reputable and Reliable Solicitors Only

Ill-fated victims of medical nonperformance often fall in a dilemma when it comes to choosing and appointing legal experts for taking legal actions against the negligent medicos. This particularly happens with surgical error victims whose injuries and ... [Published MyNewsDesk - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Wales, England, PERSONAL INJURY, Solicitors Regulation Authority

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Help make Will Writing a Regulated Profession – Join the E-Petition

Following on from the Government’s announcement that it will not protect consumers by regulating the writing of Wills, a member of the Solicitors for the Elderly Forum - a Group of professionals who work in the area of looking after the legal affairs ... [Published Bell & Buxton - May 23 2013]

Entities: Solicitors Regulation Authority, Probate, Sheffield

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Will-writing should be regulated

ing, Justice Secretary, has rebuffed a recommendation from the Legal Services Board that will-writing should be regulated.In a Ministry of Justice statement, he said that an LSB report claiming that there is ‘consumer detriment’ in the will-writing market ... [Published Ramsdens Solicitors - May 21 2013]

Entities: David Edmonds, Solicitors Regulation Authority, Ministry of Justice, Competent

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Harrowells sponsors Alzheimer's Society Vintage Coffee Bar

Harrowells is supporting the Alzheimer's Society's 'Fabulous 50s' Vintage Coffee Bar in Parliament Street, York on Wednesday 22 May. The event runs from 10am to 4pm and includes a 50s style coffee bar, motorbike display, music shop and dance displays. ... [Published Harrowells - May 22 2013]

Entities: Alzheimer's Society, Coffee, Solicitors Regulation Authority, England, Financial Conduct Authority

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Exclusive: well-known PI firm unveils new post-LASPO ABS model

Well-known personal injury law firm Gorman Hamilton has launched a twin-track approach to life after LASPO, part of which has been to form an alternative business structure (ABS) in which a credit hire company has a minority stake.The second prong has ... [Published Legal Futures - May 22 2013]

Entities: David Hamilton, Solicitors Regulation Authority, Appointed

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Tesco PLC

Price Info Swap Anti-Competitive

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) can take a very strong line when it discovers that price information is passing between competitors with the result that the competition between them is diminished. This can include situations in which information about ... [Published Hatchers Solicitors LLP - May 21 2013]

Entities: OFT Office of Fair Trading, Anti-Competition, Tesco PLC, Whitchurch (England, United Kingdom), Solicitors Regulation Authority

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Reform uncertainty forces new criminal law ABS to put external investment thoughts on hold

Plans to grow a criminal legal aid firm that has just received its alternative business structure (ABS) licence – potentially through external investment – are on hold pending the outcome of the government’s current reform plans, according to its head ... [Published Legal Futures - May 21 2013]

Entities: Criminal Law, Legal Aid, Mark Burns, Solicitors Regulation Authority

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Law firms: information overload?

Firms will soon be obliged to publish diversity data – perhaps on their website or in reception if they have no website. I find it hard to see how, in a firm which consists of one person only (such as mine), it can be consistent with the Data Protection ... [Published Law Society Gazette - May 20 2013]

Entities: Solicitors Regulation Authority, Competition Law, Antitrust, Data Protection

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Construction sector case study from Vistage

Construction Law NewsThe last few years have been challenging for the construction sector to say the least. Since the Recession started the existing market has become more and more competitive. Construction output is at an all-time low, The Green Deal ... [Published Clarkslegal - May 20 2013]

Entities: Construction, Solicitors Regulation Authority, Wales, Recession, Climate

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

SRA popularity falls

A Law Society survey has found that solicitors are less likely to speak positively of the Solicitors Regulation Authority than they were a year ago.It was not all bad news with poor results also decreasing to the lowest level since the survey started ... [Published Today's Conveyancer - May 20 2013]

Entities: Encumbrance, Law Society, Desmond Hudson, Solicitors Regulation Authority

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Legal: Beneath the Tweets

Our monthly column from Law Society of Scotland director Neil Stevenson explains the stories behind some of his tweets Is a more "holistic" approach part of our courts future? #protestforjusticeA feasibility study is apparently looking at a purpose-built ... [Published The Scotsman - May 20 2013]

Entities: Scotland, Solicitors Regulation Authority, Law Society

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Solicitor ? Housing

Howells LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No 439254) (No. OC317143) ... [Published Howells Solicitors - May 17 2013]

Entities: Solicitors Regulation Authority

Quotes

"Judging by the number of calls I get from other councils, they are very quickly waking up to the fact they have got to change. It is a lot later in the day than we were here in Kent. But because of the financial constraints and it is nothing else other than that many are looking at alternative ways of doing things."

Call of the Wild – Kent County Council's Geoff Wild on transforming the local authority's legal team [Published Legal Week - 2 hours ago]

Though the court admitted that the docket is "false, misleading and/or inaccurate, the clerk refuses to correct it or alert the English tribunal" Mireskandari claims

International Legal Wrangle Blamed on Clerk [Published Courthouse News Service - 15 hours ago]

Client watchdog the Legal Services Consumer Panel also condemned the decision. Chair Elisabeth Davies said: "This decision is extremely disappointing news for consumers and makes no sense given the sheer weight of evidence of consumer detriment and the wide consensus backing regulation."

Will-writing should be regulated [Published Ramsdens Solicitors - May 21 2013]

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Call of the Wild – Kent County Council's Geoff ... [Published Legal Week - 2 hours ago]
File Surgical Error Claims through Reputable an... [Published MyNewsDesk - 8 hours ago]
International Legal Wrangle Blamed on Clerk [Published Courthouse News Service - 15 hours ago]
Help make Will Writing a Regulated Profession –... [Published Bell & Buxton - May 23 2013]
Business Briefing Update - May 2013 [Published Ashfords - May 22 2013]
Harrowells sponsors Alzheimer's Society Vintage... [Published Harrowells - May 22 2013]
Quindell Portfolio PLC - Major UK Contract Win [Published Morningstar UK - May 22 2013]
Exclusive: well-known PI firm unveils new post-... [Published Legal Futures - May 22 2013]
Clients first: Why you need to improve your cli... [Published MP Magazine - May 21 2013]
Will-writing should be regulated [Published Ramsdens Solicitors - May 21 2013]
Asbestos Payout for Shop Worker's Widower [Published Birkett Long - May 21 2013]
Record income growth sparks aquistion spree for... [Published Zecco - May 21 2013]
Eleven new Associates at Stephensons [Published Stephensons - May 21 2013]
Price Info Swap Anti-Competitive [Published Hatchers Solicitors LLP - May 21 2013]
Reform uncertainty forces new criminal law ABS ... [Published Legal Futures - May 21 2013]
Law firms: information overload? [Published Law Society Gazette - May 20 2013]
Construction sector case study from Vistage [Published Clarkslegal - May 20 2013]
SRA popularity falls [Published Today's Conveyancer - May 20 2013]
Legal: Beneath the Tweets [Published The Scotsman - May 20 2013]
How To: sever a partnership [Published Law Society Gazette - May 20 2013]
Solicitor ? Housing [Published Howells Solicitors - May 17 2013]
On with the Show [Published Ashfords - May 17 2013]
SRA’s popularity slips [Published Law Society Gazette - May 17 2013]
SRA urges consumers buying legal services to be... [Published Crane and Staples - May 17 2013]
BAD NEWS FOR CONSUMERS [Published Bell & Buxton - May 17 2013]
The best of both worlds [Published Clarke Willmott LLP - May 17 2013]
Ridwaan Awarded Higher Rights Of Audience [Published Forbes Solicitors - May 16 2013]
Midlands ABS issues ‘join us’ plea to insurers [Published Law Society Gazette - May 16 2013]
Leveson QC set for High Court [Published Law Society Gazette - May 15 2013]
SRA issues bogus solicitor warning [Published Willans.co.uk - May 15 2013]

Blogs

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U.K.'s SRA 'Intervenes' in Law Firm, Tells 250 ... [Published Legal Blog Watch - Mar 12 2013] In the U.K., there is a regulator called the Solicitors Regulation Authority. According to its website, the SRA regulates more than 120,000 solicitors in England and Wales, and is charged with protecting the public "by ensuring that solicitors meet high ...
Another U.K. law firm collapse costs 250 jobs [Published Financial Post \| Business » Legal Post - Mar 12 2013] The Law Society Gazette reports that Blakemores, a Midlands personal injury firm that owns Lawyers2you, has failed, making it the fourth U.K. firm to do so in 2013. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has terminated the firm’s 250 lawyers and employees ...
Now telcoms are competing with law firms [Published Financial Post \| Business » Legal Post - Mar 05 2013] A British telecommunications giant is moving into the business of providing legal services. According to The Law Society Gazette , the Solicitors Regulation Authority has granted an alternative business structure license to BT Law Limited, which plans ...

Press Releases

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National accreditation underpins rapid growth f... [Published CisionWire - English - Dec 05 2012]