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This government seems determined to keep reviewing health and safety legislation until it gets the answer it wants In October 2010, Lord Young’ Britain’s ‘compensation culture’ is fuelled by media stories about individuals receiving large compensa…

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“Pieces of eight…pieces of eight…” – Pirate ship or flag of convenience as Admiral ponders legal launch?

Photo: The Telegraph Is it now any port in a storm for under-pressure insurer Admiral? Saturday’s Telegraph reported that Admiral, the FTSE 100 motor insurer, is considering branching into the legal sector as it “faces up to the loss of the lucrat…

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If you want to deliver legal services but can’t be bothered meeting clients, then perhaps you too could become an ABS…

At a time when many lawyers don’t even want to be lawyers, we ask the question “what is driving the demand for Alternative Business Structures?” Today, legal expenses insurer DAS has taken the next step in its preparations to become an alternative…

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Lord Young of ‘Gaffem’ back in favour at Number 10

Good news and bad news for worker safety in the UK Bad news: Lord Young is back Good news: there is no good news, well not much anyway… Getty Images ‘Never had it so good’ peer Lord Young of Graffam returned to Downing Street last week on Prime …

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Defy, Disregard, Deceive & Deal – the new firm of supermarket lawyers coming to a high street near you soon

Now that we have got Tesco Law, we thought it might be interesting to consider how the supermarkets might go about delivering legal services… Since we are in the very early days of this ‘Brave New World’ of legal services we thought it only …

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