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Linked In
I have set up an additional SPG forum on the Linked In website. Linked In is a professional networking site, so should be useful for making additional contacts for your firm.
If you'd like to join, there is a link from SPG's homepage.
Karen | 30th August 2010 |
SRA Freedom in Practice Roadshow – now
online
The SRA has "taken Freedom in
Practice—a roadshow to introduce the solicitors' profession to
outcomes-focused regulation and alternative business structures—to 10
cities across England and Wales." The roadshow is now available online. Download roadshow presentation slides (PDF 34 pages, 147K, consult frequently asked questions and watch interviews with … | 27th August 2010 |
PI Insurance
SPG are receiving calls from SPs describing wildly differing experiences of this year's renewal market. Some are getting reductions on their premiums and some are having difficulty obtaining an affordable quote or any quote at all.
SPG and our hard-working PI Committee are trying to respond to all your … | 26th August 2010 |
Radio 4 - PI insurance & SPG
The You and Yours programme speaks to Janis Purdy of SPG and to Richard Brown at Prime Professions about the PI insurance situation.
You can hear the interview again on the BBC website:
"Increases in professional insurance fees for solicitors are rising so fast- fuelled by personal injury … | 24th August 2010 |
Survey input request: ’Taking the pulse of the high street’
Jures, a research company and think-tank dedicated to the legal services market, has been commissioned by a leading legal publishing company to undertake a survey amongst small law firms (5 partners or fewer) aimed at identifying the main survival issues affecting high street practices. We would be most grateful if … | 16th August 2010 |
Hurry - complete your Insurance Proposal Forms
UPDATED 16th August 2010: The limited market for sole practitioners has shrunk still further. It had been believed that Zurich no longer want to insure small firms. (We now understand that Zurich are still in the market for sole
practitioners, at least for your existing business, and … | 16th August 2010 |
Law Society's Professional Indemnity
insurance (PII) Helpline
Dear all,
I wanted to bring to your attention that our Professional Indemnity
insurance (PII) Helpline which re-opened on Monday 16th August. This
free and dedicated Helpline will support solicitors who are
encountering difficulties with PII during the renewal period. The
number is 0207 320 9545. Please do all that you can to let … | 11th August 2010 |
Please vote - implementation of Alternative Business Structures
The Executive Committee of the Sole Practitioners Group ask you to consider a further question in relation to alternative business structures and for as many people as possible to reply to it.
The question
I wish
I do not wish
the Executive Committee of the Sole Practitioners … | 4th August 2010 |
Legal Aid & LSC bids
SPG is very aware of the current plight of SP legal aid practices and is actively seeking to promote SP interests at this very critical time in legal aid history. To assist us in doing so, SPG would be very interested in receiving feedback from our members as to the … | 3rd August 2010 |
PC fee set to decrease
The average practising certificate fee will fall by "more than a quarter in 2010/11 for the ‘typical’ fee-payer", according to the Gazette (8th July 2010) if proposals submitted to the Law Society Council are approved next week.
The introduction of the ‘fairer fees’ regime takes place in … | 13th July 2010 |
ABSs not to to be introduced by new Government?
The SRA has reported that the Times speculates on future of ABSs. Clive Sutton of SPG's Executive Committee has been prominent in representing the views of SPs on this, including making representations to the House of Commons Select Committee.
"Jonathan Ames writes in The Times that rumours … | 13th July 2010 |
Your views on the new SRA handbook please - a message from the SRA
We need yours and your members’ views and help in our development of the SRA’s new Handbook of regulations. We want to make sure that our new system works for solicitors and clients alike, and that it transforms the way in which the SRA and the profession work together. … | 11th June 2010 |
New SRA Handbook
The new draft Handbook is available. Antony Townsend spoke at SPG's Conference in May, giving more detail on this.
The SRA are moving towards "outcome-focussed regulation" - "This Handbook reflects a modern approach to regulation. We intend it to support those we regulate and to assist consumers of … | 3rd June 2010 |
HIPs are suspended from 21st May
The requirement for Home information Packs will be suspended for anyone selling their home from 21 May 2010. The new Government needs legislation if abandoning them completely.
The energy performance certificate is retained and must be produced by the seller within 28 days of putting a … | 20th May 2010 |
Quinn Insurance
The National Executive Committee has recently had a meeting with Mr. Richard Brown of Prime Professions to establish the up-to-date position in respect of Quinn Insurance Ltd.
Richard Brown provided some background to the situation. In Ireland legislation allowed the financial regulator to replace the management of a … | 20th May 2010 |
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