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When I left the law in 2011 to start a compliance consultancy for law firms, Jonathon Bray Legal Services, I perhaps did not appreciate the importance of regular cash flow.  I was more concerned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When the SRA launched its “Risk Outlook” in July there was no doubt that the most significant risk identified was financial difficulty/stability. At the heart of the matter is [...]

Over the summer the Legal Service Board (LSB) conducted a survey of the 193 Alternative Business Structures (ABS) licence holders (38 CLC and the remainder SRA). The survey set out to gather [...]

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 [...]

File reviews are an important part of that supervision system – nobody has yet devised a better way to quickly and effectively monitor files.  Here are our seven tips to help COLPs conduct [...]

Louise Price, Employment Law partner at Hugh James, gives us an overview of the pension auto-enrolment requirements.  Are you prepared? According to the government adverts, we’re all ‘in’ on the [...]

On 1st April 2013 the referral fee ban element of LASPO (ss56-60) comes into force. It will become unlawful for a solicitor to pay a referral fee for personal injury claims. Arguments about [...]

Think of the application of health and safety in the workplace and you usually think of warehouses, factories or other high-risk environments. However, the regulatory regime is just as stringent [...]