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Don’t be caught out by new cooling-off regime (PIE)

With the cooling-off rules changing, there continues to be concern that many agents will be caught unawares by the full implications of the new regime.

Rob Hailstone June 13, 2014

Rob Hailstone of the Bold Legal Group Calls on the SRA to Extend Consultation Deadlines (IC)

On the 7th May the SRA launched four consultations that will have far reaching affects for Law firms both large and small. Yet it only allowed a six week period

Rob Hailstone June 12, 2014

SRA takes too long to approve applications, ABSs say (LF)

Firms applying for alternative business structure (ABS) status believe the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) takes too long to approve applications and its staff are too “bureaucratic”, according to the regulator’s

Rob Hailstone June 12, 2014

ABSs capture a third of personal injury market, SRA research reveals (LF)

Alternative business structures (ABSs) account for a third of all turnover in the personal injury market, the first accurate overview of the progress of ABSs has revealed.

Rob Hailstone June 12, 2014

The collapse of In-Deed should give hope to conveyancers (LF)

It came as a major surprise to many in the industry when In-Deed effectively closed for business. Despite a difficult trading period, with over £1m in cash on its balance

Rob Hailstone June 12, 2014

I took this job to change legal services market, says new LSB chair (LF)

Sir Michael Pitt, the new chairman of the Legal Services Board, has said he took the job to “help change the legal services market”.

Rob Hailstone June 11, 2014

SRA confirms another month of falling firm numbers (LSG)

The number of solicitor firms has fallen by almost 800 in the past two years, new figures have revealed.

Rob Hailstone June 11, 2014

Agents that are charging buyers, rather than sellers, criticised (PIE)

Industry trainer Adam Walker and Winkworth director Hugh Dunsmore-Hardy – a former chief executive of the NAEA – have both said it is totally unacceptable.

Rob Hailstone June 11, 2014

When did lawyers become less reputable than insurers? (LSG)

The government has announced that lawyers and claims firms are to be banned from offering incentives such as free tablet computers to encourage people to make insurance claims.

Rob Hailstone June 11, 2014

Supreme Court ‘village green’ ruling (LSG)

A field in Whitby, North Yorkshire, cannot be registered as a ‘town or village green’ despite the fact that its owner, Scarborough Borough Council, has allowed its informal use for

Rob Hailstone June 10, 2014

Are you going to be one of the survivors? (LF)

If you wish to be in the successful, you need to avoid these pitfalls.

Rob Hailstone June 10, 2014

Parliamentary inquiry calls for renewed wills push in bid to increase charitable giving (LF)

A parliamentary inquiry has called for a push to encourage people to make wills and that will-writers should inform all clients that they are able to leave money to charity

Rob Hailstone June 10, 2014