Month: June 2022

This post was originally published on this siteThe value of the medico-legal market fell by a further 5% last year, after shrinking by 18% during 2020, a report has found, with the lower end hit by the whiplash reforms and court delays. The post Value of medico-legal market slumps by further 5% appeared first on […]

This post was originally published on this siteLast month, two all-party parliamentary groups published a joint economic crime manifesto that sets out a “comprehensive list of pragmatic reforms” designed to tackle the UK’s dirty money crisis. The post Lawyers who break AML rules face bigger, more public fines appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteThe month of April saw various data breaches occur across a number of industries in the UK. Many of which occurred due to hackers accessing systems, but also via human error. The post April 2022 data breach roundup appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteData analysis from Dye & Durham has identified that more than 7.65 million properties in Great Britain could be exposed to medium or high risk of soil subsidence by the 2080s – an increase of over 1.89 million individual property addresses – as a result of climate change. […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe latest HMRC property transaction data covering May 2022 shows a 1.6% jump in transactions from the month previous. Transactions are down 2% on May 2021 The post Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s property transactions data for May 2022 appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteQuality PI (QPI Ltd) is an independently owned, specialist adviser to the legal sector, established by a team of mature professionals who have owned and run their own businesses for many years. The post Quality Professional Indemnity appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteWe were recently contacted by an IT Support Managed Service Provider (MSP) business who had lost many of their end user backup accounts when their previous well known USA based cloud backup provider carried out an update. The post Choose your backup provider wisely appeared first on Legal […]

This post was originally published on this siteMost Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All […]