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6 Dec 2010

Conveyancers could operate without insurance under latest SRA proposal

The SRA has unveiled a set of radical reforms including scrapping the single renewal rate for professional indemnity insurance, removing financial services work as a compulsory insurance element, and reducing the time firms are allowed in the assigned risks pool – all of which are due to come into effect from October next year.

6 Dec 2010

Naming and shaming by LeO 'might encourage serial complainants'

Publishing details of complaints handled by the Legal Ombudsman is attracting growing support, with 82 per cent of respondents to an instant poll carried out following an evidence session in the House of Lords voting in favour.

6 Dec 2010

Update: housing

Victoria Pogge von Strandmann rounds up the year's key cases affecting the accommodation of children

6 Dec 2010

Update: children

Noel Arnold considers the latest rulings on adoption, hair testing and contact disputes

6 Dec 2010

Taxing times

Anthony Nixon offers a step-by-step guide to the inheritance tax pickle caused by the 2006 reshuffle

6 Dec 2010

Show me the money

Tim Polli investigates what the last recession can teach us about tackling a boom in lender's litigation

6 Dec 2010

Speak easy

What part of the crowd actually qualifies as a DJ's audience? Paul Mildred investigates

6 Dec 2010

Peaking interest

Stuart Bushell continues our month-by-month countdown to ABS D-Day. This time - is raiding the client account really going to save legal aid?