Law Society chief executive Des Hudson has slammed the Legal Services Commission’s consultation on best value tendering for criminal legal aid, describing it as having potentially “profound repercussions”, in his speech to the Criminal Law Solicitors Association.
The Law Society is urging home-sellers to check the real cost of their Home Information Pack (HIP) with their estate agent to avoid inflated costs. The warning comes after a Channel 4 News investigation found evidence that more than £100 could be added to the price of HIPs because of secret payments to estate agents.
Legal supply firm X-Press Legal Services has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Franchisor of the Year Awards 2009, organised by the British Franchise Association and sponsored by Express Newspapers and HSBC.
To mark the 60th anniversary of legal aid, the Law Society is conducting a review into the provision of publicly-funded criminal and civil legal services in England and Wales.
A campaign to ban the use of tyres more than 10 years old on public service and commercial vehicles has moved a step nearer to success, with the announcement by the Transport Secretary that there will be a consultation on the issue.
The campaign – named Tyred – has attracted considerable attention in the North of England since its launch by Frances Molloy, whose son Michael was one of three people killed in 2012 when the minibus they were travelling in on the way home from a music festival veered off the road and crashed.
