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By Stuart Nolan, Richard Atkinson26 July 2021 Attending police stations to provide legal advice is poorly paid, often done out-of-hours, and involves dealing with people in highly stressful situations. It is not only hard and demanding work, but also of huge importance because what happens in the police station, and the careful judgements solicitors are required to make there, affect entire cases. The critical importance of this work is why the Law Society has been lobbying for proper rates of pay. Stuart Nolan Richard Atkinson Providing face-to-face legal advice for suspects at police statio...

By Nick Gurney-Champion8 March 2021 After a long, soft market where underwriters competed for customers and capacity was plentiful, the market for PII was already showing signs of hardening in 2019. Therefore, the increased premiums and difficulties in finding cover that many in the profession experienced last year did not come as a complete surprise. But they were still unwelcome. Nick Gurney-Champion Solicitors with April renewals last year were fortunate as many had already arranged cover before the first lockdown was implemented. Thus, the first real effects of Covid-19 were not experie...