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Ticket to ride

Law firms should consider outsourcing some functions to streamline their business models or ABS will derail them, says James Holder

SRA expects 20 applicants for ABS status

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is expecting 20 firms and organisations to apply for alternative business structure status when the regulator begins licensing ABSs on 3 January 2012, Solicitors Journal has learned. The first licences are due to be issued around six weeks later, in the second half of February.

Legal aid cuts postponed to April 2013

The government is postponing implementation of the cuts contained in its legal aid bill to April 2013. Consultation on competitive tendering for criminal legal aid has been postponed until the autumn of 2013.

From HMRC with love

James Badcock considers the implications of the recent UK/Swiss tax agreement

Appeal judges back LSC in battle over payments on account

The Court of Appeal has rejected arguments by the Law Society and Bar Council that the LSC's ability to recoup legal aid payments on account should be limited to six years from the end of the case.

Digging for gold

Suzanne Evans considers how the 'golden rul'; has changed since Thorpe v Fellowes

Public sector strike closes magistrates' courts

Today's strike by public sector workers has resulted in the closure of at least eight courts.

Norgrove's family justice service not necessary, Lord Justice Wall says

Lord Justice Wall, president of the Family Division, has said that a new family justice service, a central recommendation of the Norgrove review, is neither practical nor necessary.