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Fourteen months to find a solution

By Frank Maher28 June 2021 Solicitors Indemnity Fund For the first time since 1976, solicitors and staff from practices which have closed may find from October 2022 that they have no insurance against professional liability claims.  Frank Maher Practices which close without a successor practice must have six years’ run-off cover under the SRA Minimum Terms and Conditions. After that, the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) has provided cover. That will cease next year.   The risk is not illusory. SIF statistics published in 2016 show that approximately 10% of claims are made after six years. A recent claim in the Court of Appeal against the Halliwell Landau partnership (not a SIF case) arose from an alleged act in 2003 – a year before the firm had converted to an LLP which collapsed into administration in 2010.  

Remote hearings fragmented | News

Civil court users have criticised the use of remote hearings as ‘fragmented’ and inconsistent, calling for improvements as the pandemic abates. Writing for Gazette Online, Michael Javaherian, vice chair of the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA), notes that modes of delivering remote hearings differ widely. They can involve parties being required to phone the court or supply an email so they can be sent a link to join a remote platform such as Teams or Skype. Other methods include requiring parties to arrange phone conferences or video hearings to which parties must facilitate access via a link. ‘This fragmentation has presented difficulties, since it is sometimes unclear which of the methods shall be used,’ says Javaherian. ‘The problem is compounded by the fact that a number of notices of hearing published and distributed by courts have been ambiguous as to platform, raising confusion. At other times, notices of hearing have neglected to mention whether or not the hear

Remote hearings fragmented , say civil court users | News

By Gazette reporter24 May 2021 Civil court users have criticised the use of remote hearings as ‘fragmented’ and inconsistent, calling for improvements as the pandemic abates. Writing for Gazette Online, Michael Javaherian, vice chair of the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA), notes that modes of delivering remote hearings differ widely. They can involve parties being required to phone the court or supply an email so they can be sent a link to join a remote platform such as Teams or Skype. Other methods include requiring parties to arrange phone conferences or video hearings to which parties must facilitate access via a link.

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