Alpha Legal – Major Update – Live!

The Alpha Legal team at Start Software have published their first major update and all Alpha Legal subscribers now have access to the new features. Building on the success of the ID, bank account details and COVID questionnaire forms in the first release, the new update brings two new features which have been requested by […]
Passwords, Phishing and the Dark Web

Matthew Locker, a Cyber Security Consultant at Apstorm has shared his ideas on how practitioners can remain compliant in the modern world. In today’s digital society, passwords have become a necessary evil and are the guardians of some of our most important information, e.g. online retail, banking, email accounts, customer contact databases, social media platforms, […]
How can your firm manage risk and compliance in an increasingly digital world?

As 2021 gets underway many of us will be reflecting on how we can manage our businesses in the coming months in a landscape of continuing change and, now, lockdown 3.0. One of the biggest questions facing us now is what elements of the new ways of working we’ve had to adopt, and which parts […]
Indemnity Costs Order against executors in respect of an Appeal

The background to the case of Ali v Taj and others is that the deceased died in 2007 and a grant of probate was made in favour of Mr Taj and a Mr Khan. The executors swore at the time of extracting the grant a gross value of the estate of in excess of £18 […]