On 22 February the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) published new No-deal Brexit guidance for lawyers. Although it is nothing that was not known before, this document is a must-read for: European [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Failing to comply with anti-money laundering regulation poses a serious threat to businesses. Take Estate Agents for example – whose average HMRC fine for being around £12,000. Having a robust [...]
On 14th June 2018, the SRA published the latest of its long-awaited regulatory reforms, which have been four years and four consultations in the making. The reforms formed part of the Looking to [...]
