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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]