CQS has now published its new Core Practice Management Standards (CPMS) with a deadline of 1 May for firms to comply with the requirements.
The amended standards were announced in November last year and firms will need to review their documentation in order to ensure compliance.
Your firm’s website could be one of the 500 chosen for random checks by the SRA. The regulator said yesterday that it intends to carry out the checks to ensure that they are meeting new requirements for price transparency. Informal reviews carried out to date suggest that many firms may not escape closer scrutiny and could face a rebuke or possibly a fine for non compliance
Read moreThe SRA is expecting firms to be fully compliant with the new Standards and Regulations by July 2019 with no ‘grace period’ allowed. This means that firms need to plan now in order to be fully compliant on day one of the new regime. With further guidance expected this month and the regulator warning there will be no ‘light touch’ in its approach to compliance – we’d urge firms to book an appointment with Legal Eye’s experienced risk consultants in the next few weeks in order to ensure there are no nasty surprises this summer
Read moreThe pilot that the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) is running on a new way of handling complaints is said to be delivering better quality and greater efficiencies according to the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) which supervises LeO.
Read moreChanges to the Civil Liability Act and the introduction of a new online platform for dealing with claims will mean that personal injury firms are forced to rethink their business models. Major change is widely expected by April 2020 that is expected to cut PI lawyers out of dealing with claims in many cases
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