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This is a transcript of a webinar presented on 17th March 2021 for Jonathon Bray clients. We provide monthly training sessions like this for all retainer clients. Introduction The Proceeds of [...]

When Is A Breach Of The SRA Rules “Serious” And Reportable? Every firm will have a minor SRA breach every now and then, be it correspondence sent to the wrong address, payments allocated to the [...]

What’s the SRA ‘tax adviser’ issue? As we previously highlighted (see When is tax advice not tax advice? The implications for solicitors are no joke), it is critically important [...]

This post was originally written in 2017 and has been updated in light of the newer SRA Standards and Regulations and guidance.  Every firm will have a minor SRA breach every now and then, be it [...]

Compliance issues for solicitors to look out for in 2021 We were thrilled to be asked to write a compliance blog by our friends at The Cashroom. The six burning issues for 2021 are: Covid and [...]

Most solicitors specifically exclude tax advice in their retainers, unless they have a dedicated tax department. This does not mean that they are shielded from the Money Laundering Regulations. [...]

10 things you must do as COLP [2021 update] This was a fun little project! We went through some of our posts from 2012 (ah, simpler times…), when the COLP and COFA roles were just being [...]

(EDIT – since this COFA article was originally written in 2012, the regulatory regime for solicitors has had a major overhaul (see SRA Standards and Regulations), but the main thrust of the [...]

(EDIT – since this article was originally written in 2012, the regulatory regime for solicitors has had a major overhaul (see SRA Standards and Regulations), but the main thrust of the article [...]

(This is a guest post by Fiona de Feu aka ‘My Compliance Colleague’. Thanks, Fiona!) Spoiler alert! You will not enjoy this article. There’s nothing “feel good” about it, and it’s [...]