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The SRA has announced that the outcome of the consultation is that it has agreed to extend the SIF until September 2023 whilst further options to protect consumers are considered . The move comes after the SRA launched a consultation in November 2021 where it sought views from the profession about the future of SIF, which currently provides supplementary run-off
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Today is Deadline Day SIF Meeting with the SRA – This afternoon we are meeting with the SRA via Teams to discuss the future of Solicitor Indemnity Fund – run off cover . This is a vital consultation which affects retiring solicitors who may find themselves in need of insurance protection after they leave practice . We have opened this
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Monday 27 September, 2-3pm Virtual meeting with the SRA to discuss post six-year run off cover We have pleasure to announce that we have managed to secure a meeting with the SRA for Yorkshire Solicitors to discuss the Post run off cover for solicitors which was to be withdrawn but is now subject to a 12 month extension whilst the
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Solicitors will be well aware that guideline hourly rates upon which the Courts assess legal costs have been stuck for the last 10 years. This has been a period when the financial burden on legal practices has been anything but static . It was a welcome relief therefore when a Consultative group was formed to look at the issue
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The Ministry of Justice has now published a consultation on accelerated changes to the public funding arrangements for Criminal Legal Aid . This follows from on going work which continues in designing a new scheme for public funding which is intended to provide a long term sustainable scheme for public funding for criminal legal aid . The proposals which can
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The Ministry of Justice is now consulting on changes to bail and Release Under Investigation . This follows a sustained campaign by the Law Society and other groups over the scheme introduced in 2017 which has led to considerable delay for those suspected of offences as well as for those who have come forward as victims . It is also
Read moreThe second consultation by the Lord Chancellor closes by 18th October. We have less than 4 weeks to respond to a second version of the assault on our businesses / livelihoods. Dont be lulled into a false sense of security by the Headlines that PCT is dead, client choice is retained or that the Law Society has given
Read moreEarly Reports are now circulating in advance of tomorrows announcement indicating that there are to be some changes to the Governments current proposals . How significant those changes are will be a matter of pure speculation however in this Mornings Parliamentary Debate there was certainly an indication from a Government Minister that the responses to the consultation had been taken
Read moreThere are reports circulating on Twitter from informed sources that the Ministry of Justice will be delivering its response to the current consultation on Thursday and issuing a new short consultation on its final proposals . It has apparently not taken too long to digest the thousands of responses . The Lord Chancellor has already declined to wait for further
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