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The Senior Courts Costs Office (SCCO) has ruled that pre-decision costs in homelessness appeals are recoverable, marking a major victory for Duncan Lewis Solicitors. This landmark decision reinforces access to justice for vulnerable individuals and affirms the importance of preparatory legal work in challenging unsuitable housing conditions.
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2024 proved to be another successful and interesting year for our legal supplier Blanchards. With the growth of the team and their appearance on Channel 4s Key To A Fortune, they have reached new levels of prosperity. In this lookback of their work in 2024 Callum Emmerson discusses the surprises they have come across.
In this article Debra Cairns, Managing Director of Net Defence shares some of the best practices for password management, along with the most commonly made mistakes so that you can avoid them.
Discover John Bolch’s latest family law blog exclusively for our legal supplier Cansford Labs, exploring key legal updates predicted for 2025, practical insights, and expert analysis on family law issues, from divorce to child custody
In this article we bring you the latest of round-up of Robert Spicer’s ‘Health and Safety Horrors’ from his popular LinkedIn posts of health and safety case summaries.
Anti-money laundering for law firms has always been a concern, what is “enough” information on a client to determine they’re legitimate, and their money is legal? But over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the industry as a whole, specifically pushed by the SRA and Law Society that enough simply isn’t being done. Take for example the story of Mishcon de Reya being fined for AML compliance breaches. They were smacked with a fine of £232,500 which highlights the reinvigorated push for better AML compliance and AML checks within law firms.
With the need for more stringent anti-money laundering checks in the legal sector, we have put together a list of some top tips on how to help you combat money-laundering.
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Regarded as one of the most efficient, swift, and responsive finders of people. Tracing direct has been committed to assisting organisations identify rightful beneficiaries to both intestate and testate estates for over fifteen years. Established in 2007, Tracing Direct has developed a successful and proven strategy to locate unknown beneficiaries around the globe. Their proficient […]
We’ve been analysing the time being taken by clients to complete their ID document requests within Alpha Legal. We’re regularly seeing start-to-finish times of 3 minutes now. That’s literally 3 minutes for the user to Compare that to the physical process of visiting you in your office, bringing their paperwork in, having you photocopy or scan it and then you […]
From the attack on Hackney council to the Kaseya attack that demanded $70 Million USD, ransomware is posing more of a threat than ever. Especially thanks to COVID-19. For those who are unfamiliar, ransomware is a type of malware that is stealthily installed on an unsuspecting user’s P.C to extract money from their organisation. Before we go into how to […]
It is often said that the absence of evidence does not equate to evidence of absence, and whilst this might be true in many situations – for example, the absence of blood on the clothing of an alleged assailant might be because he did not commit the offence or alternatively because the complainant was not […]
Family law webinar: Family law in England and Wales is changing rapidly. This webinar will dig into some of the key upcoming changes for 2022, specifically looking at the Family Law Language Project, no-fault divorce, and the shift towards non-court dispute resolution. CPD certificates available upon request Learning Objectives: About OurFamilyWizard Working alongside clients on […]
Law firms are constantly seeking new ways to stay ahead of the competition and market their legal services. Like all businesses, law firms need to be marketing themselves to attract new potential clients and must consistently engage with prospects at every point in the customer journey to succeed. In the digital age, where attention is […]
The challenge we have as a business is that Casedo is not a tool that has equivalents, people don’t know that they need it, because they have only ever used document viewers, PDF Editors and Word Processors to manage their groups of related documents. Casedo offers a no-tab workflow where all your documents appears as […]
In the legal sector, money laundering is a growing concern for most law firms. Fraudsters continue to take advantage of weak security measures and they continue to slip through the safety net. Creating a continued threat to practices. AML checks are a critical process in a law firm’s security measures to mitigate the risk of […]
Why Standards? Everybody has standards that they work to, whether they realise it or not. With the introduction of ISO 45001 in 2018, the issue of standards was again in the news and people asked which standards are right for them. However this ignored the bigger question about all the other standards that also exist […]
Nick Wallis has written what feels like the most important book I have ever read. “The Great Post Office Scandal” begins with a short foreword by Seema Misra, a victim of the scandal and the former subpostmaster for West Byfleet. It is hard to imagine anything more gently suburban, but in just six short paragraphs, […]
Smartphones are a part of everyday life, and they can tell investigators a lot about the actions of both suspects and victims, leading up to the event being investigated. Simply having the details of an individual in the contact list may be enough to disprove the claim that “I never knew them”, and having the […]
I’m going to share with you the average amount spent on marketing by law firms I work with, plus the fool proof method for you to decide how much your firm should be investing. The average cost of marketing for law firms is about 0.5 percent to 5 percent of their entire yearly revenue. Management […]
Drag-Along and Tag-Along Rights: what are they, why are they necessary and how do they affect the valuation of a minority shareholding? The valuation of shares in a company can be complex and even more complicated when valuing a minority shareholding. I was recently instructed by the solicitors acting for the wife in a divorce, […]
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