All Regulation and compliance articles – Page 63
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NewsNews focus: Post-Beckwith, SRA must focus on 'what matters to clients’
Will the SRA stop insisting 'solicitors are paragons of virtue' in their private lives?
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NewsCrisis-hit Legal Ombudsman warned of possible 'alternatives'
LSB says lawyers and consumers want improvement but have little confidence in Legal Ombudsman.
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NewsBeckwith: Solicitors’ sex lives ‘their own business’, says regulation guru
Regulators should not 'hitch themselves to transient public bandwagons', says Solicitor’s Handbook author.
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NewsNews focus: Solicitors still missing scam red flags
Law firms are still ignoring too many red flags, SRA compliance conference hears
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OpinionBeckwith judgment: where now for the SRA?
Major questions will be asked of the regulator’s approach and its attitude to costs.
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NewsCourt blasts SRA for ‘alarming’ costs bill in Beckwith case
Regulator claimed costs of almost £344,000 in wake of high profile prosecution.
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NewsComplaints about barristers surge as focus shifts to private behaviour
Regulator received 15 cases alleging sexual harassment, which - along with bullying - is an area of ‘real concern’.
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NewsSRA chair: Going back to old ways of working would be a ‘travesty’
Anna Bradley hopes that changes to working practices can continue when pandemic ends.
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NewsSRA chief: Misconduct reports must be more than office gossip
General counsel clarifies reporting obligations and discourages ‘defensive’ reporting by firms.
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NewsConsumer need still unmet a decade after Legal Services Act, says LSB
Legal Services Board once again calls for sector to change, despite widespread improvements.
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NewsClient account outsourcing fails to take off
SRA pushing benefits of third party managed accounts as a way of limiting insurance costs.
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NewsFirm fined £14,000 after missing ‘red flags’ on property work
SRA announces sanction in the same week as renewing calls for extra due diligence on clients.
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NewsCyber criminals make £2.5m raid on law firms in lockdown
Staff working from home thought to be easier target for fraudsters online.
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NewsSRA tells firms: Check exactly where your client’s money came from
Regulator suggests current checks being made by some firms are not enough.
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NewsLegal Choices website records 3m visits in three years
Regulators running site say consumers are increasingly engaging with it.
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NewsSolicitors reassured over PC renewal as extended deadline looms
'If members or firms have already submitted a renewal application no further action is required,' Law Society says.
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NewsCourt overturns SDT’s ‘seriously flawed’ decision to clear solicitor
Case involving costs claimed by former Neumans partner will have to be re-heard before a new panel, High Court rules.
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NewsMaster warns of tougher line on rogue costs bills
Courts are taking the view that bumped-up costs must be sanctioned - not just disallowed.
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NewsCity firms 'intimidate' SRA over prosecutions, claims campaigner
Equal rights activist says sole practitioners disproportionately targeted because City firms are too big to go after.