TA6 form
Today’s Conveyancer, Inside Conveyancing and LexisNexis (£) report that the Law Society has launched its TA6 property information form consultation, as more than 1,000 conveyancing professionals register.
Law Society president Nick Emmerson said: “With more than a thousand people registered to be involved in the TA6 form consultation, we know that this is a very important issue for our members.
“We are committed to engaging with conveyancers across the country and want to hear from members who have used the forms and those who have not.
“The consultation will help us understand users’ experience and views of the TA6 form, its part in the wider conveyancing landscape and to identify improvements to the property form.”
FOS complaints
Legal Futures covers the Law Society’s concerns that charging law firms to bring complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service could make the volume of complaints unmanageable.
A Law Society spokesperson said: “For those firms, the fee makes their practice unmanageable unless the consumer pays the increased costs, which could have an impact on those with less ability to pay.
“Furthermore, the introduction of a fee this high is prohibitive for Law Society members who may want to bring a new business model where they do not take any portion of damages awarded.
“Instead, they will have to revert to the more typical model which will in turn lead to reduced damages for successful claimants.”
Prison overcrowding
Thaiger covers the government’s strategy to tackle prison overcrowding in the UK. The piece mentions the Law Society’s concerns of potential delays and uncertainty for solicitors in response to Operation Early Dawn, which comes into force today.
Sentencing for rioters
Stuart Nolan, chair of the Law Society’s criminal justice committee, spoke to BBC News (live on 16 August at 20:43:54) about sentences being handed out at courts for rioters.
Compliance programmes
Today’s Conveyancer, Inside Conveyancing and Legal Support Network report that Amy Bell, chair of the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force, is featured in a podcast on why compliance programmes fail and the best procedures to ensure success.
Trade creditors
Gazette reports that trade creditors have paid £800 million of high-profile law firm failures since the legal services market was liberalised more than a decade ago. The Law Society is mentioned.
Former president interview
Business Day Nigeria features an interview with former president, I. Stephanie Boyce, on her career trajectory and tenure as the first person of colour and sixth female to be president of the Law Society.
Also worth a read:
- Prison overcrowding emergency measures, also known as Operation Early Dawn, come into force today - BBC, Times (£)
- Five takeaways from the UK riot courts - Guardian
- Progress in infected blood scandal compensation - Gazette
- Guide published for AI approach to e-discovery - Legal Futures
- Benefits of firm-wide adoption of LinkedIn for legal professionals - Solicitors Journal
- Met Police inadequate at managing risk of sex offenders - City A.M.
- UK’s biggest law firm has sought more than £1m from climate protesters to cover the cost of court orders banning them from protesting - Guardian
- Number of asylum seekers who died in Home Office care doubles in a year - Guardian
- Black children in England and Wales are four times more likely to be strip-searched – inews (£)
- Laws on union strike threshold set to be scrapped - BBC
- New wave of UK strikes looms – FT (£)