Practice notes

Advocacy

• Criminal plea in absence of full disclosure
• Criminal procedure rules 2011
• Criminal prosecutions of victims of trafficking
• Virtual court first hearings
• Withdrawing from a criminal case

Civil justice

• Litigants in person

Civil liberties

• Anti-terrorism
• Criminal prosecutions of victims of trafficking
• Equality Act 2010
• Equality and diversity requirements: SRA Handbook
• Police interviews involving sign language interpreters

Company and commercial

• Articles of Association
• Confidentiality around client insolvency

Consumer issues, debt and bankruptcy

• Cancellation of contracts

Corporate social responsibility

• Collecting, reporting and publishing diversity data
• Compromise Agreements and Section 147 Equality Act 2010
• Equality Act 2010
• Equality and diversity requirements: SRA Handbook
• Flexible working
• Positive action
• Providing services to D/deaf and hard of hearing people

Costs, fees and funding

• Bribery Act 2010
• Initial interviews
• Unclaimed client funds
• VAT on legal aid work

Criminal justice

• Anti-terrorism
• Cautioning foreign nationals for document offences
• Communication with prisoners by mobile phone
• Conflicts of interests in criminal cases
• Criminal plea in absence of full disclosure
• Criminal procedure rules 2011
• Defence Costs Orders
• Defence witness notices
• Litigants in person
• Police interviews involving sign language interpreters
• Responding to a financial crime investigation
• Use of interpreters in criminal cases
• Virtual court first hearings
• Withdrawing from a criminal case

Employment

• Accrual of holiday pay
• Damages-based agreements Regulation 2010
• Judicial mediation

Family and children

• Acting in the absence of a children's guardian
• Anti-money laundering
• Attendance of solicitors at local authority Children Act meetings
• Family mediation
• Late payments from the LSC
• Litigants in person
• Unbundling family legal services

Immigration

• Cautioning foreign nationals for document offences
• Immigration judicial review

IT and Intellectual Property

• Business continuity
• Call recording and mortgage arrears handling
• Data Protection
• Information security

Law firm management

• Accrual of holiday pay
• Alternative business structures
• Articles of Association
• Business continuity
• Call recording and mortgage arrears handling
• Client care letters
• Closing down your practice: regulatory requirements
• Collecting, reporting and publishing diversity data
• Complaints management
• Compliance officers
• Confidentiality around client insolvency
• Conflict of interests
• Deposit protection for client accounts
• Depositing records and documents with public sector archives
• Equality and diversity requirements: SRA Handbook
• Execution of documents by virtual means
• Firm based regulation
• Flexible working
• Holding client funds
• Information on letterheads, emails and websites
• Initial interviews
• Insolvency of a qualifying insurer
• Instructing a barrister: new standard contractual terms
• Late payments from the LSC
• Legal disciplinary practice
• Litigants in person
• Outsourcing
• Overseas practice
• Positive action
• Professional indemnity insurance
• Protecting your online reputation
• Provision of Services Regulations 2009
• Publicising solicitors' charges
• Redundancy
• Setting up a practice: regulatory requirements
• Social media
• Supervision
• Tax payment difficulties
• Telegraphic transfer fees
• Unbundling family legal services
• Unclaimed client funds
• Use of investigatory powers

Legal aid and access to justice

• Acting in the absence of a children's guardian
• Business continuity
• Closing down your practice: regulatory requirements
• Communication with prisoners by mobile phone
• Complaints management
• Conflicts of interests in criminal cases
• Family mediation
• Late payments from the LSC
• Legal aid contract 2010: Criminal
• Litigants in person
• Police interviews involving sign language interpreters
• Representation before mental health tribunals
• VAT on legal aid work
• Withdrawing from a criminal case

Money laundering and financial crime

• Anti-money laundering
• Anti-terrorism
• Bribery Act 2010
• Mortgage fraud
• Property and registration fraud
• Responding to a financial crime investigation

Personal and professional development

• Continuing professional development
• Job seeking
• Social media
• Supervision

Personal injury

• Compensation

Private client

• Appointment of a professional executor
• Bankrupt beneficiaries
• Cancellation of contracts
• Disputed wills
• Estate administration: banking protocols
• File retention: trusts
• File retention: wills and probate
• Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Making gifts of assets
• Powers of attorney for banking

Property - commercial

• Anti-money laundering
• Confidentiality around client insolvency
• Conflict of interests
• Disclosure of tax avoidance schemes
• Execution of documents by virtual means
• Holding client funds
• Identity evidence for Land Registry
• Land Registry early completion
• Mortgage fraud
• Powers of attorney for banking
• Property and registration fraud
• Telegraphic transfer fees
• VAT on disbursements

Property - residential

• Anti-money laundering
• Banking crisis
• Client care letters
• Closing down your practice: regulatory requirements
• Complaints management
• Confidentiality around client insolvency
• Conflict of interests
• Disclosure of tax avoidance schemes
• Execution of documents by virtual means
• Holding client funds
• House competitions
• Identity evidence for Land Registry
• Joint ownership
• Land Registry early completion
• Lender requests for files
• Mortgage fraud
• Mortgage possession claims
• Powers of attorney for banking
• Property and registration fraud
• Publicising solicitors' charges
• Telegraphic transfer fees
• VAT on disbursements

Regulation and compliance

• Alternative business structures
• Bribery Act 2010
• Call recording and mortgage arrears handling
• Client care letters
• Closing down your practice: regulatory requirements
• Collecting, reporting and publishing diversity data
• Complaints management
• Compliance officers
• Conflict of interests
• Equality Act 2010
• Equality and diversity requirements: SRA Handbook
• Firm based regulation
• Holding client funds
• Information on letterheads, emails and websites
• In-house practice: regulatory requirements
• Insolvency of a qualifying insurer
• Legal disciplinary practice
• Outcomes-focused regulation: overview
• Outsourcing
• Overseas practice
• Professional indemnity insurance
• Providing services to D/deaf and hard of hearing people
• Publicising solicitors' charges
• Responding to a financial crime investigation
• Setting up a practice: regulatory requirements
• Use of investigatory powers

Social welfare & housing

• Representation before mental health tribunals

Tax law

• Disclosure of tax avoidance schemes
• PAYE
• Tax payment difficulties
• VAT change
• VAT on disbursements