Are Your Billing Procedures Updated for the Changes on 11th August?

Are Your Billing Procedures Updated for the Changes on 11th August?

Following the recent changes to the Legal Services Act, the provisions concerning remuneration certificates were abolished. A new Order - the Solicitors' (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 2009 comes into force on 11 August 2009 implementing these provisions. Consequently, the remuneration certificate procedure is abolished from that date. If your normal procedure is to include the requisite client information on your bills, you will need to make amendments to your billing procedures to take account of the changes.

The new order does not contain any information requirements for clients, but some of the information requirements have been carried over into a new professional rule.

he Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is introducing an "emergency" rule to the Solicitors Code of Conduct 2007 to preserve clients' existing statutory rights to information about remuneration, while consulting on the introduction of a definitive rule.

So for all those solicitors who bill clients for non-contentious work The Law Society has issued a practice note which advises on the amendments you'll need to make to your billing procedures and explains the changes in more detail, which can be found via the following link:

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/productsandservices/practicenotes/remunerationorder.page

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