ABSs era producing innovative legal services

ABS licensing has gathered pace over the summer with August seeing a surge of licensing approvals. So far 28 licences have been granted with more in the final stages of the application process. It was always going to be difficult to predict the level of interest and type of structures that would emerge, but to date a picture of innovation and ingenuity is being painted by those looking to capitalise on the opportunities that ABSs present.

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London’s Barnet and Harrow councils to save £4.4m via legal services merger

The London Boroughs of Barnet and Harrow have agreed to merge their legal services in a move that is expected to save them an estimated £4.4m over the next five years.
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All legal services should be regulated

The debate about which legal services should be regulated and which should not is not new. Over the years, reserved activities have been added in an ad hoc fashion and the result has been: confusion for consumers; firms being set up to undertake activities that are entirely unregulated with no redress for their clients when something goes wrong; and a complex and expensive regulatory framework.

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Does a VAT approach to pricing client services erode trust?

We all love to moan about budget airlines and their deceptive online pricing strategies for adding taxes, fees and charges.

They are no longer allowed to keep taxes as an unpleasant surprise until the last moment when you are about to enter your credit card details, but they do still try and add an unexpected charge for using your credit card. Earlier this year the Office of Fair Trading put passenger travel companies on notice to change misleading debit and credit card surcharging practices or face enforcement action under consumer protection laws.

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Are shared services a panacea for local authority spending cuts?

There is a road in one English town that falls between two boroughs – the boundary between them is an imaginary line down the middle of the road. Each borough has its own waste-management contract. On two different mornings, a truck from each borough goes down its half of the road and takes the rubbish for its half only. For the taxpayer, that’s double the work, double the cost, double the trouble.

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