Neil Rose

United Kingdom

Director and Editor at Legal Futures

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Articles

Legal Services Board ratchets up pressure over BSB performance

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is not improving its performance with “sufficient urgency or pace”, the oversight regulator has concluded. As a result, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has decided to escalate its informal enforcement action against the BSB, beyond the current requirement of voluntary assurance letters and meetings. It has invited the BSB to agree voluntary undertakings on performance targets and monitoring for implementation of its reform programme.
Law firm takes assignment of client's claim after pay out

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

A law firm that paid out £750,000 to a buyer client over an error on a property transaction has taken assignment of its claim against the seller, it has emerged. Cheltenham firm BPE Solicitors has obtained a freezing injunction against four properties owned by Raj Kumar Ram to stop him dissipating his assets ahead of the trial of its £1.3m claim.
“Challenging” year for PI group as new cases nearly halve

1 week ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Neil Rose

Listed business NAHL issued bullish predictions for its future yesterday after a “challenging year” that saw falls in revenue and the number of personal injury claims generated. The “structural changes” in the injury market have also led it to write off the entire £40m of goodwill that was in its accounts. The group is to reintroduce its animated ‘Underdog’ character to its advertising, after an absence of nine years, as part of a marketing refresh.
Newspaper pays class action firm damages for ‘client pressure’ libel

1 week ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Neil Rose

The Times newspaper has apologised to class action law firm Pogust Goodhead (PG) and agreed to pay damages for a defamatory claim that it was improperly pressuring clients. The firm was also wrongly accused of striking a deal to take up to half of the damages of clients in the huge Fundão Dam case it is acting on.
Revised whiplash tariff jumps final parliamentary hurdle

1 week ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Neil Rose

The revised whiplash tariff received its final parliamentary approval this week, although the Conservatives warned the government that the policy “cannot be left to run on autopilot”. It also emerged that the House of Lords’ secondary legislation scrutiny committee criticised the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for not making clear that 90% of respondents to its review of the tariff opposed the ‘buffer’ element of the figures, which takes account of expected inflation over the next three years.
SRA seeks extra £11m as complaints about solicitors rise by 20%

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

A “significant and sustained increase” in the number of reports about solicitor misconduct is fuelling the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) plans for an £11m increase in its budget to £168m, it said yesterday. This is set to translate into a 16%, or £26, increase in the SRA’s portion of the practising certificate fee to £190, but it will be largely offset by a £20 reduction in the individual contributions to the SRA Compensation Fund to £70. The £6 net increase is a rise of 2.4%.
Newspaper pays class action firm damages for 'client pressure' libel

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

The Times newspaper has apologised to class action law firm Pogust Goodhead (PG) and agreed to pay damages for a defamatory claim that it was improperly pressuring clients. The firm was also wrongly accused of striking a deal to take up to half of the damages of clients in the huge Fundão Dam case it is acting on.
Revised whiplash tariff jumps final parliamentary hurdle

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

The revised whiplash tariff received its final parliamentary approval this week, although the Conservatives warned the government that the policy “cannot be left to run on autopilot”. It also emerged that the House of Lords’ secondary legislation scrutiny committee criticised the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for not making clear that 90% of respondents to its review of the tariff opposed the ‘buffer’ element of the figures, which takes account of expected inflation over the next three years.
"Challenging" year for PI group as new cases nearly halve

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

Listed business NAHL issued bullish predictions for its future yesterday after a “challenging year” that saw falls in revenue and the number of personal injury claims generated. The “structural changes” in the injury market have also led it to write off the entire £40m of goodwill that was in its accounts. The group is to reintroduce its animated ‘Underdog’ character to its advertising, after an absence of nine years, as part of a marketing refresh.
Judge condemns lawyers who produced "fake citations" to court

1 week ago | legalfutures.co.uk | Neil Rose

The High Court has ordered that a barrister and the solicitors who instructed her be referred to their regulators after providing five fake case citations in their pleadings. Mr Justice Ritchie said the behaviour of Sarah Forey of 3 Bolt Court and the lawyers at Haringey Law Centre in London had been improper, unreasonable and negligent, and he also ordered them to pay wasted costs.