Compliance Failures – material or not?
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 [...]
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Meet the SRA Regulators – Andrew Garbutt
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 [...]
Personal Injury inducements. Where do you stand COLP?
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 [...]
Pension auto-enrolment – are you supposed to be ‘in’?
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 [...]
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COLPs: Beware of referral fee ban avoidance schemes
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 [...]
Regulatory Compliance for Solicitors: Software review for COLPs and COFAs
There is no doubt that Compliance Officers have an unenviable job on their hands with the introduction of the new compliance roles in legal practice. This article looks at software packages [...]
