Labour's legal affairs spokesman Paul Boateng MP says he will speak out against the draft regulations for conditional fees laid before the Commons last month unless the Government agrees to amend them to give greater consumer protection to litigants. Boateng says lawyers are in a “superior bargaining position” and litigants need greater protection. “Litigants, not lawyers, must be the principal beneficiary of the new scheme,” he says.
Solicitors leave straight and narrow as debts rise
DISHONESTY among solicitors is on the up as they struggle to cope with growing debts, claims a Law Society report. A progress report to the society’s council on the campaign to crack down on fraud admits to only limited success since its launch two years ago. Though it identifies evidence defaulters are being discovered earlier […]