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All organisations must have transitioned by September 2018 as the current certificates will no longer be valid. If this is the case in 12 months' time, you will no longer be able to claim you are ISO 9001 certified and must notify any associated organisations that this will contractually affect.

Ascension Island has only around 800 residents and is found 2,500 miles east of Rio and 1,210 miles west of Namibia, one of a cluster of remote islands that are part of the British Overseas Territory. Not your average location for an assessment.

Many factors influence the cost of Professional Indemnity insurance, the general economy, insurer competition, profile of legal work being undertaken, current or previous regulatory investigations and so on.  One of the biggest drivers of increased insurance costs are claims.  If a firm can reduce the number of claims and notifications and put their insurer in the best possible position to defend…

Should more firms be looking to management standards like Lexcel or BS76000 to tackle the problem?

Centre for Assessment Operations Director Dave Harrison says, ‘We are delighted to be chosen as the preferred delivery partner for the TSA and look forward to delivering a range of auditing services for their members’

The new scheme applies to anyone with a practising certificate as well as Registered European Lawyers (RELs) regardless of where in the world they are based, whether they practise English Law or if they are retired.

QBE, which insures more than one in 10 law firms in England and Wales, said its latest data shows that around £85m has been stolen across the legal market in the past 18 months.