Professional Indemnity Insurance Update – an interview with Gary Horswell of specialist insurance brokers, Ntegrity. Everyone knows that the insurance market looks a lot different to the [...]
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 SRA has published an update to its Risk Outlook and warns legal professionals of the risks currently facing law firms. The report contains a table of today’s key risks: Misuse of money or [...]
We have been instructed to search for a senior compliance specialist to join one of Cardiff’s top legal firms. The business is a true “rising star”, and this is a rare [...]
Law firms must carry out extra pre-contractual due diligence, introduce tighter agreement liability clauses and undertake regular reviews of active contracts when outsourcing web marketing such [...]
COLPs and COFAs are under a duty to keep a record of all compliance failures and to report breaches to the SRA as required. In the case of “material” (i.e. serious) breaches, as a rule of thumb [...]
Firms intending to host festive client events as part of their marketing strategy this year will shortly be turning their thoughts to venue choices, canapés selections and whether or not the [...]
We talk to Andrew Garbutt, Director of Risk at the SRA Please give a brief background about yourself and explain your role at the SRA. I started working in the Law Society group in 2005 working [...]
On 16 October 2013 the SRA held its first conference for law firm Compliance Officers, entitled “The key to compliance”, at the NEC in Birmingham. Around 500 delegates – mainly COLPs [...]
The SRA’s decision not to ban Personal Injury inducements and incentives has put the cat amongst the pigeons, hasn’t it? And now APIL’s Chief Executive, Deborah Evans, has [...]
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