As complaints against solicitors continue to rise, the beleaguered Office for Supervision of Solicitors (OSS) has released figures showing that it is falling dismally short of its own performance targets. Earlier this year the OSS introduced a new streamlined procedure and aimed to have 90 per cent of new complaints dealt with inside three months. […]

A headline in last week’s issue of The Lawyer incorrectly stated that Ashurst Morris Crisp had hired its new commercial property head Simon Cookson. He was in fact an internal appointment.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has cocked a snook at the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, by asserting that his headline grabbing proposal to withdraw legal aid from personal injury cases “would not appear necessary”. In its response to Scottish Office proposals to reform civil justice in Scotland, the board claims that since legal aid […]

An angry student has slammed the College of Law for leaving her name out of the official list of successful Legal Practice Course (LPC) candidates by mistake. Paula Lennon, a part-time student on last year’s course at the college’s London premises, had rushed out with her friends at 3am in the morning to buy a […]