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Are you owed money? Having trouble getting creditors to pay?

Nick Fluck
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We have considerable experience in the modern minefield of debt collection. Our senior partner, James Buxton, has set out some of the key points to consider and the principal legal means and methods available to you when making the decision to pursue a debt through the courts in a recent article which you can access via our areas of law link.  If you are owed money and would like advice or assistance in pursuing your debtor please contact Mr Buxton via our contacts link.

 

Experience Counts!

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Stapleton & Son's Solicitors have over one hundred and fourteen years of experience in practice between them - don't forget it's not just what you know, nor even who you know but rather what who you know knows that counts!

Check out our "Can we help you" pages from the link at the left and if you don't immediately see the area of law in which you need assistance remember that, thanks to our membership of Connect2Law, we have access to a network of specialist law firms with lawyers who can advise you, no matter how esoteric your enquiry may be. If you cannot find one of our staff with the expertise you need please contact our Connect2Law co-ordinator Mrs Hodgkin in the first instance and we will assess your needs and put you in touch with the right person. Mrs Hodgkin's direct email address is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

New Regulatory Structures - In the public interest?

Nick Fluck
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Informed citizens will be aware that the Legal Services Act 2007 will be ushering in an entirely new, government-controlled, supervisory regulatory structure to ensure that the regulatory arrangements already in place for solicitors operate correctly.

Although the Act itself doesn't mention this, the recently published draft business plan of the fledgling Legal Services Board makes it abundantly clear that the Chair, David Edmonds, intends that the Act will revolutionise not just the regulation of legal services

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An unhelpful start? The Legal Services Board is over budget and committed to acting ultra vires and it isn’t even in operation yet.

Nick Fluck
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The Government is in the throes of establishing an overriding regulatory structure to make sure that legal services are properly regulated in the interests of the consumer. 

The Legal Services Board, the new body created for the purpose, has issued its first draft business plan showing it expects to have to take £800,000.00 from the, also soon to be established, Government’s Office for Legal Complaints budget just to balance its books in year one. This is even before it embarks on its new role.

The LSB has concluded its consultation on its....

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Conduct Unbecoming?

Nick Fluck
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Could it be that Harriet Harman's recent comments in Government, as a Solicitor, constitute an offence against the Solicitors professional rules? In her recent interviews on the topic of Sir Fred Goodwin's pension pot she stated:

"The Prime Minister has said it's not acceptable, therefore it will not be accepted. It might be enforceable in a court of law but it's not acceptable in the court of public opinion, therefore the government will take action."
 

It is a paramount duty of all solicitors to uphold the rule of law in their capacity as Solicitors of the Supreme Court. Harriet's comments certainly seem to imply an entirely new court, that of public opinion, which of course has no constitutional basis.

So is the intention to flout the law, or the public decrying of it, an actionable matter? Perhaps being an important Government Minister should mean different rules apply?  No doubt the Solicitors Regulation Authority will be knocking on Harriet's door any day now - if not for any real purpose at least for the look of the thing!

 
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