Sunday Law Review: the week that was 29th Jan. – 4th February.
span style="font-size: large;"br //spanbr /div class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: large;"As I braced for the snow tofinally arrive, the week started with some welcome news for the legalcommunity. The a href="http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/implementation-of-jackson-reforms-pushed-back-to-april-2013"Jackson reforms and the referral fee ban had beenpushed back/a/spanspan style="font-size: large;" to April 2013. The reformwas originally scheduled to take effect in October 2012. The government hadalready pushed back implementation of part 1, dealing with legal aid reform, toApril 2013. As the House of Lords began scrutinising part 2 of the Legal Aid,Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (LASPO), which contains theprovisions, the timetable was deemed to be too tight for implementation withinthe earlier deadline. /span/divdiv class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: large;"br //span/divdiv class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: large;"The Solicitor’s RegulationAuthority (SRA), one of the regulators to enforce the ban on referral fees hascalled on the government to provide a href="http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-calls-on-government-to-provide-more-clarity-on-referral-fee-ban"more clarity over referral fee ban/a/spanspan style="font-size: large;". The a href="http://thelawmap.blogspot.com/2012/01/sunday-law-review-week-that-was-22nd.html"previous week’s Sunday Law Review/a/spanspan style="font-size: large;" reported on the government’s plan to abandon meanstesting police station advice. This week, Justice Minister Jonathan Djanoglyhinted a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/feb/02/legal-aid-bill-concessions?CMP=twt_gu"further concessions/a/spanspan style="font-size: large;". The minister stated that he was uncertain about the precise costs andbenefits of the reforms. /span/divdiv class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: large;"br //span/divdiv class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: large;"The government reform of the‘no win no...
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