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Mark Ashley

Lord Young facebooked in bid to ban claims management companies

Lord Young, whose report on compensation culture is expected on 15 October, has been facebooked by a prominent personal injury lawyer over advertising for personal injury work.

Update: local government

Peter Hill reviews the coalition's draft structural reform plan, localism bill and drive towards transparency, public procurement regulation breaches, and council surveillance powers

BSB launches plan to regulate advocacy ABS firms

The Bar Standards Board is proposing to become a specialist ABS regulator, regulating only lawyer-run advocacy firms.

Update: charity

Charlotte Watts reviews the gift aid rules, failure of charitable gifts, equality legislation, and new measures to make it easier for charities to sell land

Lord Justice Moses to hear Law Society judicial review

A leading lord justice has been recruited to hear the Law Society's judicial review challenge to the LSC's tender of family legal aid contracts. The hearing, at the High Court, begins this morning.

More clarity needed before will writing can be regulated, LSB says

Establishing the existence of widespread malpractice among will-writing companies is a prerequisite to introducing specific regulation of the sector, the Legal Services Board has said.

Concern over leaks from Young report

Solicitors have reacted with concern to leaked proposals from Lord Young's report on health and safety which appeared in the press this weekend.