How Client Money is Handled
The SRA has for some time now been obsessed with making changes to the ways in which client accounts...
The Continuing Pressure for Demonstrable AML Compliance
The issue of what is expected of firms from the MLR 2017 continues to be highlighted by the regular ...
Financial Services Advice and Insurance Distribution
Of all of the areas of solicitor regulation, the provision of financial advice to clients is surely ...
Vexatious Subject Access Requests
Increasingly solicitors are being asked to respond to a data subject access request (DSAR) where the...
Revised Guidance and Warnings from the SRA on Sanctions Liability
SRA issues revised guidance explaining their expectations from solicitors and providing practical ad...
SRA Questionnaire – AML Data Collection Exercise 2024
Firms have been receiving the SRA’s questionnaire relating to anti-money laundering compliance, tr...
SRA Sanctions Questionnaire
Concern has been expressed about a questionnaire from the SRA dealing with the arrangements firms ha...
SRA Continues Focus on AML Compliance
Recent regulatory proceedings against Dentons and Clyde & Co, combined with other lower profile ...
It’s time to be afraid, very afraid
Are solicitors about to be rendered ineffective by the latest SRA plans to abolish client accounts?Â...
LSB to Improve Complaints Handling
Legal Services Board issues Requirements, Guidance, and a statement of policy to regulators with aim...