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SRA reforms: for better, for worse?

28 June 2018
Issue: 7799 / Categories: Legal News , Regulatory
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John Gould, senior partner at Russell-Cooke LLP, takes the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to task this week in NLJ over its proposals for greater transparency. The SRA’s ‘Better Information, more choice’ reforms would require law firms to publish pricing and protection information on their website. Gould asks, however, if clients really will be better off. He says ‘pricing the permutations of transactions hypothetically on a website may lead to even greater complexity’. Moreover, ‘the more prescriptive the published price information requirement, the stronger the commercial pressure will be to shoe-horn services into product packages and to quote seemingly attractive prices subject to small print and “extras”’.

Issue: 7799 / Categories: Legal News , Regulatory
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Thomson Hayton Winkley—Suzie Fisher

Thomson Hayton Winkley—Suzie Fisher

Cumbria firm appoints long-serving lawyer as new managing director

Taylor Wessing—Kim Wedral

Taylor Wessing—Kim Wedral

Employment specialist joins Cambridge office as partner

Mewburn Ellis—Amy Crouch

Mewburn Ellis—Amy Crouch

Patent litigation offering boosted by partner appointment

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The right of the press to report on the criminal courts received a boost this week, following an update to the Criminal Procedure Rules
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