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COLPs Supplement | Getting to grips with your compliance plan

So you've been nominated as your firm's COLP or ?COFA – what next? Matthew Moore outlines the main ?steps for all firms to consider. The...

COLPs Supplement | Regulatory considerations for LDPs

There are just fewer than 500 practices that have converted to LDP status since this ?format of practice became possible. Their special position has not...

COLPs Supplement | FAQs

The COLPline team considers some of the issues they are most frequently asked about, from outsourcing to avoiding conflicts in conveyancing instructions, and from money...

ABS countdown | Could ABS catch on outside England and Wales?

The continued recession could well make governments in other jurisdictions forget about their concerns about independence of the legal profession and abandon their opposition ?to...

Update | Judicial review

Gareth Mitchell looks at the likely impact of implementing the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2011 on the funding of judicial review...

The relevance of purpose in deprivation of liberty cases

The addition of ‘purpose' by the English courts to the factors relevant 'in assessing whether there has been a deprivation of liberty can wrongly provide...

Service by social media will only be allowed in limited circumstances

Before allowing service by social media, the courts will need to be convinced that claimants are not trying to circumvent the strict process, say Elaine...

The pervasive reach of the new 'global basis' test

What is the point of cost budgeting if judges are also allowed to reduce agreed recoverable costs at the detailed assessment stage on completion of...