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Society asks Met Police to investigate Wonga over fake firms

The Law Society has contacted the police and Solicitors Regulation Authority asking for further investigations after payday lender Wonga was found to have sent letters appearing to come from law

Rob Hailstone June 30, 2014

Law Society calls for criminal investigation of Wonga

Following recent news reports into misleading debt collection practices, the Law Society has asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate Wonga.

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Spectator magazine writer’s astonishing prostitute slur on agents (PIE)

We are not quite sure what the journalist Harry Mount has against high street estate agents, but here he is – having another pop, this time in the Spectator magazine.

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Industry underwhelmed by new mortgage measures (EAT)

There has been a muted response from agents and property insiders to new measures by Bank of England government Mark Carney to stop the boom turning into a bubble.

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Do London Cabbies Foretell the Fate of Conveyancing Solicitors

Earlier this month 10,000 black-cab drivers brought the capital to a standstill by blockading Trafalgar Square. They were re protesting Uber, the American mobile phone app that locates the nearest

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Law Society targets anti-solicitor websites as it raises temperature over Wonga’s fake firms

The Law Society is planning to use the European Court of Justice’s ruling on the right to be forgotten online to challenge anti-solicitor websites.

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Law Society on Newsnight (LSG)

Andrew Caplen, Law Society vice president, appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight programme last night to discuss the legal and consumer aspects of the Wonga case. Watch the broadcast.

Rob Hailstone June 27, 2014

Connect2Law lives on as Slater & Gordon launches Linked to Law (LF)

Law firm network Connect2Law is to live on separately from Slater & Gordon-owned Pannone after a deal struck with its former head, David Jabbari – with S&G launching its own

Rob Hailstone June 26, 2014

Lawyers on Demand heads north to spread the word on alternative resourcing

Alternative legal services provider Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has launched a Manchester ‘hub’, its first outside of London, in a bid to expand its ‘on site’ model of placing freelance

Rob Hailstone June 26, 2014

FSA, FCA – the brass plate has changed, but not much else (LSG)

The risible sanction imposed on Wonga for harassing borrowers through fake law firms shows how little has changed in the City.

Rob Hailstone June 26, 2014

Government will not legislate to protect whistleblowing partners (LSG)

Legislation to protect partners under whistleblowing laws is ‘unnecessary’ following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last month, the government said today.

Rob Hailstone June 26, 2014

Wonga fined for threatening customers with fake law firms (LSG)

Wonga has been ordered to pay £2.6m in compensation after sending letters to customers in arrears from non-existent law firms.

Rob Hailstone June 25, 2014