Understanding “Pieces of Eight” in Modern Legal Context

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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Delivering Legal Services When Full Access Isn’t Possible

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 Returns to Advise on Safety 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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Deceptive Firms: Protecting Yourself From Legal Pitfalls

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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Jack Straw aimed a kick at the wrong target when he bemoaned activities of claims companies and lawyers in referral fee investigation.

Jack Straw, ‘friend of the disadvantaged and champion of justice’ has attacked firms engaged in the referral fee ‘racket’ during a meeting of the Transport Committee last week. Motorists are being fleeced of 2billion a year in unnecessary ins…

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