SRA Waivers: Innovation or Jumping the Gun?
Much has been written recently about the SRA granting waivers to firms ahead of changes to the rules...
Lexcel 6.1 Takes Effect
The Law Society has now unveiled its latest version of its flagship Lexcel standard. Although only a...
SRA Reforms – Towards the New Handbook
This article looks at three issues that arise from the SRA’s programme of de-regulation - indemnit...
Property Fraud Cases – Dreamvar
We feature this month the familiar topic of who should bear the liability for property fraud when a ...
Looking at the SRA Reforms Ahead
It now seems a long time since the SRA issued a series of consultations in 2016 and 2017 on the new ...
Making Staff Data-Security Aware
Data security is very much in the news at present - if only because of the focus that has been broug...
Getting to Grips with GDPR
There can be little doubt that one of the major compliance issue of this year will be the implementa...
Whose File is it Anyway?
The issue of who owns the solicitor's file and whether the client or their new representatives are e...
Checking Sources of Funds in Financial Transactions
In compliance terms, the main story of the year was without doubt the implementation of the revised ...
The Criminal Finances Act 2017
The Criminal Finances Act introduces new powers to seize suspected criminal property even where ther...