Insurers take a risk if they get too greedy

‘I’m going to MASS tomorrow,’ I told my better half last night.

‘Since when did you go to church?’ was her immediate reply. Sadly the Motor Accident Solicitors Society conference doesn’t seem imprinted on everyone’s mind just yet. Certainly the delegates here have more reason than most to turn to God. Their fees from the RTA Portal are set to be slashed, the route to clients through referral fees will be banned next April, and the government is on such a collision course with whiplash it might have a sore neck by the finish.

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Sevenoaks Solicitors

Are solicitors really living through the ‘end times’ for law as they have known it?

In his memoir Editor, journalist and author Max Hastings mused on the difference, as he saw it, between readers of the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. Mail readers, he observed, woke every morning and opened their paper of choice to find that the world had altered irretrievably for the worse overnight; Telegraph readers awoke to find the world as they knew it pretty much unchanged.

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Women lawyers believe they are paid less than male peers

Most women lawyers believe their male colleagues earn more than they do, research has suggested.

A survey of 200 UK lawyers by jobs board twosteps showed that 61% of women lawyers thought they earned less than men, while 100% of those earning £95,000 or more believed their male peers were better paid.

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MPs warned they will be ‘overloaded’ due to legal aid cuts

A group campaigning against the government’s legal aid cuts has sent Christmas cards to MPs warning them that they could be overwhelmed with constituents’ problems.

Justice for All, a coalition of legal and advice agencies, politicians, trade unions, community groups and members of the public, said that the £350m cutbacks ‘will leave thousands of people with nowhere to turn for help with serious and urgent problems’.

The card sent to MPs shows a picture of Father Christmas carrying a sack of constituents’ problems to a local MP’s surgery.

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