Apparently Professor Lee Bridges appeared in front of the HoC Constitutional Affairs Committee yesterday. It was discussing the implementation of Lord Carter’s proposals. I cannot listen to this on my computer (because it is a Mac) but friend of this site Nigel Ford suggests that he rather forciably clarified his point that “market failure,
Many thanks to all of you who responded to yesterdays request. Load of really helpful comments, thoughts and encouragement. Watch this space.
Here we thanked the LSC, primarily for putting us on the online marketing list rather than for the immediate content of the first e-mail (CDS form updates). We do not recant that thanks but…. Why oh why oh why do they have to release a further amended CDS 17 only a few days later. It […]
As we have mentioned before the LSC have now published a response to the Preferred Supplier Consultation. (I will give a fuller take on this later in the month). Perhaps most intriguingly it seemingly introduces (somewhat out of a clear blue sky) compulsion with regard to the use of ECMS. This next new acronym refers […]
The Autorecbots are busy again this morning. Andy has dealt with 2 phone enquiries (one over a very small and arguably de minimis overpayment) and I have spoken to a client who the LSC is leaving alone because “we have so badly messed up your contract”. At this point I think it is important to […]
It struck me that the Carter proposals could be derailed by a strike of Peer Reviewers, rather than the entire profession, some time ago. I kept quiet because I didn’t want to upset our Peer Reviewer clients. One of this mornings phone calls indicates that someone else has had the same notion and it is […]
This theme will just not go away. One of those battling it out on the front line reports a pyric victory today by achieving a 7.5% positive “balance of payments” figure. He did not however succeed in avoiding a reduced SMP by gaining allowance for all the costs on CDS 7s in the system awaiting […]
After posting this yesterday my very next client call obviously had to redress the balance. We have been discussing this issue quite a bit here. In brief the LSC are chasing firms, often on a monthly basis, to try and effect a 100% reconciliation of contracts by the end of March this year. (This despite […]
Looks as though the LSC is toughening the line on protesting solicitors. Before Christmas I was with a firm who had received a call to ask if they had been involved in a local “strike”. They replied “no” because they hadn’t. It appears that Big Brother is not only watching Jade Goody. As I always […]
If you think we have only bad things to say about the LSC here goes. Many thanks for putting us on the Online Marketing list and consequently todays mail. This, in case you have missed it confirms new versions, mandatory from 2nd February, of the CDS 14 – 17 forms. Watch out for amendments to […]