Hampshire Law Society - Referral Fees
The Regulation Board of the Law Society is due to review the Practice Rule allowing referral fees at its meeting in November 2006. Of particular concern to the Regulation Board is the fact that it appears that many firms who pay referral fees are not complying with the Rules as to disclosure so that clients are not making an informed choice.
At the Law Society Conference on 13th October the Lord Chancellor expressed his own view that referral fees were not in the interest of the consumer and he considered they should be banned. This is the view that the majority of solicitors have taken for some time. We at Hampshire Law Society are doing our best to persuade the Regulation Board of this view.
Many of you sent us details of your experiences with Referral Fees and HILS have produced the following Review of Referral Fees
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