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CRACKING COMPLIANCE

12 July 2007
Issue: 7281 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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In brief

A new solicitors’ practice will specialise in helping law firms with compliance and regulatory matters. The launch of the service—which will initially offer its services through the website www.lawcompliance.co.uk—coincides with the coming into force of the new Solicitors’ Code of Conduct. Areas covered by the company will include all aspects of the code, as well as money laundering and data protection. Founding director, Simon Young, who has written and lectured on compliance issues, says: “The whole area of compliance is changing so fast people are bewildered. Most firms simply won’t have the resources to keep up without help.”

Issue: 7281 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Fox & Partners—Nikki Edwards

Fox & Partners—Nikki Edwards

Employment boutique strengthens litigation bench with partner hire

Fladgate—Milan Kapadia

Fladgate—Milan Kapadia

Partner appointed to dispute resolution team

Carey Olsen—Louise Stothard

Carey Olsen—Louise Stothard

Employment law offering in Guernsey expands with new hire

NEWS
Law students and graduates can now apply to qualify as solicitors and barristers with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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