FOCUS OF THE DAY: The Legal Services Board (LSB) has attacked the “arbitrary nature” of the separate business rule used by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), and said the list of what is permitted and what is not is “confusing”. In a report on restrictions on business ownership, the oversight regulator said: “The SRA appears to accept that certain legal services providers are capable of operating with prohibited separate businesses, subject to conditions regarding disclosure and separation, but others are not. Full story - Legal Futures
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- Venables officer paid £40,000 by tabloids, court hears http://t.co/dncpcUecmw
- William Hague and Gordon Brown have clashed in the Commons over calls for "English votes for English laws" http://t.co/JDq2XsTKWW
- Bishop of Gloucester sex offences inquiry dropped http://t.co/oH1ZwAHT7R
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- The UK is clamping down on revenge porn with jail terms. Why can’t the US? http://t.co/corWljI4BL
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- Confidentiality and sex cases: Why suspects as well as complainants should remain anonymous | Law Gazette http://t.co/Q7S5NJlZLK
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- The flaw in deterrence-based asylum policies by #AUSTRALIA - they just give people who lack options one less http://t.co/69QPGiEiIg
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- #HONGKONG solicitor to seek court injunction as soon as possible to bar leaders of the occupy movement http://t.co/iHfphsZfIa
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- Anti-judiciary program case: Supreme Court to indict Television company CEO, Mubashir Lucman #PAKISTAN http://t.co/vsSVK3VBD
- Rights groups have renewed calls for hate crime legislation after only 47 incidents were recorded in the first half …http://t.co/nqF4x079X4
- US condemns #KYRGYZSTAN proposed 'gay propaganda' ban http://t.co/lcC5Wyh6cI
- #NEWZEALAND Prime Minister calls for review of legislation to deal with foreign terrorist fighters http://t.co/AYGvD1S9RQ
- How much legislation actually comes from Brussels? http://t.co/y84lgs4ODE
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- Supreme Court Justice Enrique Santiago Petracchi yesterday died aged 78 #ARGENTINA http://t.co/hTWNKvPv6N
- Hign Court tells three men to pay maintenance to aged mother #INDIA http://t.co/V1pPZ3ONJZ
- Anthony Negus Film maker, 70, who harassed Exmouth employee ordered to pay £20,000+ for ‘violating her dignity http://t.co/YT91BkhKFO
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- Plea in National Green Tribunal seeks ban on firecrackers #INDIA http://t.co/n8ObGwdbsj
- Big Business to be held to account to keep supply chains slavery free https://t.co/lySQMvSVjv
- The Insolvency Service launches stakeholder newsletter https://t.co/U5enRkNIHw
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- Understanding the cost of regulation | Legal Futures http://t.co/PgrAQuhbFW
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- The #US can learn a lot from #NEWZEALAND on how to embrace indigenous cultures http://t.co/TUjWi3gjAi
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- Dutch law firm to bring Malaysia Airlines compensation case | Global Legal Post http://t.co/ijBQrMBCTt
- Malala and Nabila: worlds apart - Innocent victim of #US drone did not receive a welcoming greeting in Washington DC http://t.co/MaJLvahlVN
- A soft approach to returning British fighters http://t.co/rnys0Al3Xn
- European police on a two-week hunt for tens of thousands of 'irregular' migrants http://t.co/WGGG129jgi
- #VATICAN paper pushes to embrace homosexuals http://t.co/0MJJqO44pE
