Solicitors could pay lower practising fees for the year 2016/2017. The individual fee has dropped from £320 to £290 while the total amount to be collected from firms has also fallen, in the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) draft fee determinations. The draft fees have now been sent to the Legal Services Board for approval. Paul Philip, SRA chief executive, said: “Compensation Fund contributions have also been set, and remain at £32 for individuals and £548 for firms.”
28 July 2016
Practising fees down
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Fieldfisher—Will Sharp
Fieldfisher boosts structured finance practice with appointment of Will Sharp
gunnercooke—Thomas Bjorn & Peter Rudd-Clarke
gunnercooke grows its life sciences team with new partner hires
Leonard Curtis Legal—Mark Maguire & Kane Jones
Leonard Curtis Legal expands corporate team with twonew appointments
NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
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Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
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