Month: January 2018

Reputation & Service are King

Legal service providers live or die on the quality of what they deliver. According to the latest Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) research involving over 4,000 members of the public, nearly three-quarters chose a conveyancer on the basis of a recommendation from an acquaintance. Those surveyed cited a firms’ reputation (42%) ahead of cost (32%) as […]

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Legal Services Payment Orders (LSPOs)

The introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 [‘LASPO’] on 1st April 2013, effectively blocked access to legal aid for most Family Law cases outside where domestic violence or child abuse issues are involved. Legal Services Payment Orders were introduced as an attempt to address the problem that LASPO caused […]

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