You may have seen Brian Inkster’s all encompassing blawg roundup (UKBR#6 “The Time Travel Edition) recently. He wrote a very comprehensive round up of the UK Blawging (legal blogging) scene, particularly focussing on law blogs created since last January, which was when The Time Blawg was born. In this post I wanted to follow [...]
A Blog about UK Legal Services Deregulation
Tag Archive: Alternative Business Structures
Revolting Scots and unattractive solicitors
Rarely a day goes by now without someone somewhere writing about the Legal Services Act or Tesco Law or from providing predictions of impending doom. The end is nigh, or is it? Is it opportunity or is it threat? A good place to look for coverage of all these issues and more is Neil [...]
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
Welcome to my new blog. I’ve decided that I should complement my Jobsworth writing on employment law by a separate blog focussing on the Legal Services Act 2007 and the whole debate surrounding it. I’ve transferred across my previous posts on the subject from Jobsworth and you’ll see them below. I’m also doing quite a [...]
Tesco Law Surges Ahead
Three things connected with Tesco Law caught my eye last week and we saw some interesting developments in the liberalisation of the legal profession, aka the legal services industry. Firstly, On the 18th November, the Legal Services Board (“LSB”) published its consultation paper“Alternative Business Structures: approaches to licensing” . The LSB will become the regulator of the [...]
