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Letter: delay at the SLCC
Seven months for time bar case
Letter: SLCC ignorance
We have to educate SLCC investigators, and pay for the privilege
Letter: business failures
Should the Society tighten its solvency criteria?
Letter: what the review needs to cover
Legal services review should extend to delays in prosecuting rogue lawyers
Review time
Patience will be needed as regards the outcome of the new review of legal services regulation, but there is much for the profession to concern itself with meantime
Letter: SLCC – a protective approach
In the writer's experience, the SLCC is protective of solicitors, rather than guilty of pursuing complaints heavy-handedly
Letters: SLCC levy proposals
Comments on the Society's response
Complaints about the Commission
It is not surprising that solicitors are complaining about the SLCC budget and levy – but what should be done?
Society's "double standards" on gender equality
Claim of discrimination against those returning to practice
Letter: will normal online service ever resume?
Fear that service complaints relating to online estate agency may result in more regulation catching more than just the guilty
Fighting an unseen enemy
Solicitors need more advice and guidance against the threat from cyber criminals
Letter: minimalism in the law
Is it still expected that a solicitor actually deals with legal problems?
Letter: claims – sting in the tail
Why the professional indemnity premium hike after a failed negligence claim?
Letter: conflicted over conflict?
Comment on the Professional Practice article in the December 2015 Journal
Doing complaints better
Rather than treat it with suspicion, solicitors should engage fully with the SLCC's current strategy consultation, as they stand to gain from increased public confidence in the system
Letter: charging for delivery
Comments on the Society's guidance on charging for lending or delivering files etc
Letter: when you can't say no?
Cases can arise that it is difficult ethically to turn down
Cooling-off consternation
Guidance needed on "impractical" regulations
Life goes on – as we know it?
Why solicitors need to know about the Society's regulation consultations
Time barring hybrid complaints
Question over SLCC's unpublished policy
Where now for conveyancing?
Sep rep has been defeated; what do we do now?
Sep rep: it still needs to be "No"
Why the SGM should reject the proposal now and look for other improvements to the system
The case for sep rep: the conflict of interest is real
Why the profession should avoid the risk of conflicts arising in what is a pressured situation
Sep rep: where is the conflict?
McVey & Murricane survey of top conveyancing firms finds little evidence of conflict of interest