Our consultants provide all the assistance and expertise you need to achieve your Lexcel accreditation. The following are rendered as part of our services towards achieving and implementing the scheme:

• Regulatory compliance and risk audit
• Providing solutions and remedial action identified
• Preparing compliance plan, risk register and risk assessments
• COLP & COFA training, preparation and support including tool kit
• Lexcel accreditation, guidance and implementation, documentation and manual
• Assistance with Lexcel annual maintenance visits (AMV)

• Our consultants have years of experience in advising and helping new firm through the complex authorisation process.
• We will help with all documentations and assistance throughout the authorisation process from start to finish.
• Help is also provided in sourcing Professional indemnity.
• For those firms who wants to change status, we are here to provide professional advice on how to proceed towards smooth re-authorisation

This is beginning to be popular with the firms undertaking conveyancing work. It is apparent that many lenders will only accept those who are scheme members into their panels, it looks like this is going to be the way forward for those quality assurance firms. Some of the many advantage of this scheme accreditation includes:

• Lender panels membership
• Better deal from professional indemnity insurance providers
• better operational risk management, minimising the risk of complaints and claims
• Improved practice management standards and consistent service levels
• Marketing opportunities
• Edge over competitors
• Increased profitability

• We offer our expertise and services to your practice, and in return we make sure that you comply and pass your SQM audits.
• We also provide your firm with all documentations and SQM compliant manual
• We also undertake mock audits to check for compliance

Our consultants will work with your nominated officers in preparing fully comprehensive compliance plan for your office and also carry out firm’s risk assessment. We will also provide all necessary documents to help implement the plan for your office. We will make available to you the following documents:

• Comprehensive compliance Plan Risk register

We have join force with other experts who have proven track knowledge of the Legal industry, their aim is to make sure that our clients thrive in the face of steep competition where the industry is constantly changing. These experts cover the following areas:

• Accounting and Bookkeeping
• Legal Aid Tenders
• Lexcel, CQS & (SQM)
• IT & Telecoms
• Law costing and Billing

The benefit of making use of our certified consultants will among others;

• Reduce your cost of installation & training
• Readily available and reliance
• Industry knowledge and experience

We are a CDP approved provider and we offer inhouse legal trainings to our clients to enable them thrive in the face of steep competition where the industry is constantly changing.

 

MENTAL HEALTH LAW - COURSE SYLLABUS

The Mental Health Law Course is split into the following modules:

• An introduction to Law and Mental Health

– How we define mental health

– Assessment of mental health

– The importance of mental health statistics and legislation

• Discrimination and Mental Health

– Workplace, discrimination and mental health

– Equality Act 2010 and mental health in the workplace

– Support for those with mental health in the workplace

• The Mental Health Act 1983

– Detaining someone under the Mental Health Act 1983

– Rights of a patient sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983

– Implications of the Mental Health Act 1983

• The Mental Capacity Act 2005

– The five key principles of the MCA

– The importance of capacity and decisions under the MCA

– The role and importance of the Code of Practice

• Common Law and Mental Health

– CASE: An NHS Foundation Trust v AB

– CASE: R (B) v Ashworth Hospital Authority

– These cases and implications on mental health law within the UK

• Finding Legal Support

– When legal support is required

– Will mental health law change in the future?

• The history of Mental Health Law

– Early ideas surrounding mental health illness and the ways it was managed

– Reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

– changes in the late twentieth century and how current mental health law was

formed

• The future of Mental Health Law

– Campaigns that impact changes in mental health law

– How the MHA 1983 may change in the future

– To understand other issues which could impact the future of mental health law

• Final Assessment

 

FAMILY LAW - COURSE SYLLABUS

• LASPO Act 2012 with particular reference to Family law Private and Public Law
• What counts as domestic Abuse for Legal Aid Application
• What counts as domestic Abuse for Legal Aid Application
• Introduction to Client and Case Management System (CCMS) Family Law
• Starting and applying for new certificates in Public and Private Law family cases
• Applying for cost increase in funding
• Applying for transfer of Legal Aid certificate from a previous provider 
• Payments on Account of Cost – Solicitors Profit Cost
• Payment on Account of Cost - Expert and disbursements
• Allocation of cost – Counsel
• Final bills – Non court assessed
• Interim bills claim