‘The Legal Services Board Chief Executive Richard Moriarty spoke at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum event: Innovation in legal services market – growth, skills and new business models.’
Legal Services Board, 9th July 2015
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘Innovation is a word much bandied around in the law – on this website more than most – without always a crystal clear idea of what it means.’
Legal Futures, 7th July 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Older people are not being protected by the legal system against abuse, neglect and other crimes, their commissioner for Wales has said.’
BBC News, 15th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) is launching a survey today inviting views from anybody and any firm that has been in contact with one of the eight legal services regulators in England and Wales.’
Legal Services Board, 14th May 2015
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘Giving McKenzie friends permission to speak in court would drive a bulldozer through the Legal Services Act, which was intended to regulate reserved activities, criminal barristers have said.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 1st April 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Samuel Littlejohns, pupil at 1 Hare Court, examines whether the very fact that a party consulted a lawyer at a given time is privileged information, and the practical consequences of this for practitioners.’
Family Law Week, 27th March 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Legal services look likely to be a “future boom area” for local authorities as they seek to operate more entrepreneurially, a think tank has claimed.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th March 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Ben Wooldridge, pupil at 1 Hare Court, reviews the court’s treatment of nuptial agreements since Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, highlighting emerging trends and the growing significance of the parties’ intentions in determining enforceability.’
Family Law Week, 5th MArch 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The new mandatory gateway for civil legal advice may have been a barrier to access to justice, according to charity Public Law Project, which has published research showing the service has been used far less widely than expected.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd March 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Family proceedings involving children where neither parent had legal representation, increased by 30% in the family court in 2013-14, revealed the National Audit Office last year in a report on legal aid.’
The Future of Law, 20th February 2015
Source: www.blogs.lexisnexis.co.uk
‘More than a third of advice agencies that have so far implemented charging for legal services appear to have done so sustainably, a survey of post-LASPO innovations has found.’
Legal Futures, 3rd February 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There needs to be an independent review of the operation of the legal market to investigate whether the Legal Services Act 2007 is working and why fees have not fallen in the light of greater competition, the Lord Chief Justice said today [27 January].’
Legal Futures, 27th January 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Legal aid firms and advice agencies are being encouraged to embrace new technologies to survive in the post-LASPO world. A new report by LV director David Gilmore and Matthew Howgate, following on from the 2014 Innovation in the delivery of legal services conference, provides examples of what firms and not-for-profit agencies are doing to survive in the wake of the legal aid cuts. The authors conclude that it is ‘impossible to see the LASPO cuts as anything but an absolute disaster’. However, they argue that across the advice sector there are ‘strong ideas’ emerging.’
LegalVoice, 26th January 2015
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘“Steps must be taken” to find out why the cost of legal services is increasing, despite the changed market and “great number of providers”, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, has said.’
Legal Futures, 16th December 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Following the recent publication of a report on litigants in person in private family law (reported here), the Lord Chancellor has commissioned a review of accessibility and affordability of legal services.’
LegalVoice, 10th December 2014
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
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