News archive

An archive of news from the Solicitors Group.

2009

• Pre-Budget Report 2009 summary

  A summary of the Pre-Budget report 2009 from the Tax Faculty’s technical team.

• Controlled trusts – can law firms now ‘make a turn’ on funds held?

  Prior to the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA 2007), ‘controlled trust money’ was separately defined within the SAR. Readers may have noticed that since the LSA came into effect, a separate definition of ‘controlled trust money’ no longer exists

• Helping law firms survive the credit crunch

  Law firms are discovering they are not immune from the impact of the economic downturn.

2008

• Contingent fee arrangements

  The ASB response: after consideration of contingent fee arrangements.

• New chair for Solicitors Group

  We welcome Janet Marton, KPMG director, as the new chair of the ICAEW Solicitors Group.

• LMS Legal Finance Forum 2007

  Maximising profitability for your practice

• New faces for Solictors Group committee

  Four new committee members have joined the ICAEW’s Solicitors Group.

2007

• Top speakers lined up for conference

  Leading speakers from The Law Society and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been lined up for this year’s annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Solicitors Group.

2006

• Record turnout for Solicitors group conference

  More than 320 delegates from across the country attended this year’s annual conference of the ICAEW’s Solicitors Group – a new record for the event.

• Legal profession will remain a closed shop

  The report of the Joint Committee on the draft Legal Services Bill does nothing to help open up the market for legal services to greater competition, even where covered by very adequate safeguards and could be seen as protectionist, according to the ICAEW.

• Insolvency report published

  The Institute's annual report on insolvency regulation shows that it licensed over 700 insolvency practitioners last year.

• Record turnout for Solicitors Group's conference

  More than 320 delegates from across the country attended this year’s annual conference of the ICAEW’s Solicitors Group – a new record for the event.

• Accountants and lawyers urged to work together to ease red tape burden

  Accountants have been urged to work closely with solicitors to help avoid an excessive red tape burden for the legal profession.

• ICAEW group in partnership "first" with Lloyds TSB Business

  The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) has linked up with Lloyds TSB Business in a new partnership deal.

• New committee member

  Colin Knight, practice accountant at Suffolk law firm Ashton Graham, has joined the committee of the ICAEWs’ Solicitors Group.

• Leading lawyer to address accountants’ conference

  Fiona Woolf, vice-president of the Law Society, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual conference of the ICAEW Solicitors Group.

2004

• Law Group's membership soars

  Membership of the ICAEW’s Solicitors Group has more than doubled this year to over 700...

• ICAEW Law Group to launch new roadshow

  The first in a new series of national roadshows by the ICAEW’s Solicitors Group will be launched later this year...