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CLC Consults on Regulatory Fees for 2025-26

The CLC has opened a consultation on regulatory fees and fee rates for the licence year beginning 1 November 2025. For the licence year 2015-16 the average practice fee rate was 1.25% of turnover. Over the last ten years we have been able to reduce that rate very considerably, and the proposal in this consultation…

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Ongoing Competence – an update

Thank you again to those who took part in our consultation on the proposed new Ongoing Competence Code in March and April this year.  You can read about the changes we have made to the Code based on your feedback in this consultation report.  Perhaps the biggest change has been to simplify the Code, making…

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AML Alert - Artificial Intelligence being used to bypass CDD checks

As ever, criminAs ever, criminals intent on laundering money will use whatever means available to them avoid detection, including Artificial Intelligence (AI).  As AI becomes more sophisticated and those with criminal intent become more adept at deploying it, there is an increasing trend in its use to bypass Client Due Diligence Checks (CDD). The Legal Services…

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AML Alert - Artificial Intelligence being used to bypass CDD checks

As ever, criminals intent on laundering money will use whatever means available to them avoid detection, including Artificial Intelligence (AI).  As AI becomes more sophisticated and those with criminal intent become more adept at deploying it, there is an increasing trend in its use to bypass Client Due Diligence Checks (CDD).  The Legal Services Advisory…

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