The Dirty Dozen – 12 jobs COLPs must tackle in 2019
Forget about gym-membership subscriptions and new healthy eating regimes. Maybe something a little more palatable would be a constructive look at planning your risk and compliance tasks for the [...]
SRA Transparency Rules in a nutshell
What are the SRA Transparency Rules? The clue is in the name! Law firms are to be more transparent in respect of the prices and services that they offer. The SRA transparency rules are part of [...]
Guest post – SRA investigations: be alert, be prepared
By Gideon Habel, Associate in Regulatory & Disciplinary law, Leigh Day Plotting a careful path to manage regulatory risks before issues arise is always better than dealing with the [...]
The Insurance Distribution Directive 2018 for solicitors
What’s The Insurance Distribution Directive 2018 all about? The 1st October saw the implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive 2018. I may be wrong, but it seemed to pass by without [...]
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme and solicitors
What is the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)? The FSCS is a statutory compensations scheme offered to customers of financial services firms (most notably, banks), which will [...]
Preparing for SRA price transparency
No doubt you will have heard of the SRA’s plans requiring firms to publish details of their prices. It stems from the SRA’s ‘Better Information’ consultation and following [...]
SRA risk report 2018/2019
The SRA has published its Risk Outlook for 2018/2019. One of the main themes emerging is that criminals are having a very real impact upon the legal profession and [...]
