The Gazette (sorry no link as ever they are a day behind on the web site) reports on the Law Society Access to Justice Committee’s concerns over UPOA. That is, if you’ve not had to deal with it, unaccounted for payments on account on long dead certificated cases. We have experienced clients being asked to […]
Those submitting claims for “exceptional” Legal Help matters (over 3X your TFF) know that these are subject assessment. On the basis of yesterdays experience this “assessment” is not a standard line-by-line taxation but rather a very broad brush “Singh” assessment. Oh yes you have a right of appeal but only to a CC at Liverpool […]
If, in the Tailored Fixed Fee scheme, your average reported profit costs slip 20% below your fixed fee the LSC can reduce this, with retrospective effect. Monitoring your average against the TFF is therefore vital. We have observed this occur on a couple of occasions now. The first tip is simply to argue your corner. […]
Unsurprisingly Immigration suppliers also face new and demanding statistical hurdles under LSC Corporate Targets which can be read in summary in Focus 48. A target of a 40% “success” rate in asylum cases, by April 2006, is to be “explored in discussion” with underachieving firms with the aim of agreeing an “action plan which will […]
By chance, and a third party, I received a copy of the LSC?s latest consultation document Making Legal Rights a Reality. You can read the associated press release here. They don’t seem to be posting it to firm’s, you can however download it from their site. The early impression, on a quick scan of the […]
In a post entitled NfP (not for profit) below we discussed an interesting development regarding reporting the statutory charge in tailored fixed fee cases. The LSC seemed to be advocating an approach which, in certain circumstance, meant that they were enforcing a charge against the client which is more than they were paying the supplier. […]