When Blood Isn’t Thicker Than water!
There are thousands of people who rely on receiving a sizeable inheritance from relatives, however, they could be in for a surprise as ‘more than a quarter (28%) of retirees plan to leave their money to friends, animal charities and neighbours instead of children and grandchildren’. The number of unhappy relatives who believe they are […]
New Equity Release Standards Protect Vulnerable Consumers
The Equity Release Council has released a new set of updated industry standards aimed at ensuring higher levels of consumer protection. The Council has claimed the latest changes, which will take effect from the start of January 2020, are the most significant shake up to standards and regulations since its launch in 2012. The updates […]
Diversity In The Legal Sector: SRA Risk Outlook 2019/20
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have released their Risk Outlook for 2019/20, citing ‘Diversity in the profession’ as one of their nine challenging key risks which continually needs tackling in the legal industry. Promoting diversity in the legal profession has been a difficult task over many decades and despite many campaigns to address the issue, still more needs to be done. In the 2018/19 Risk Outlook it stated: “Our law firm diversity tool shows that entry into […]