Duncan Finlyson Articles July 15, 2022 Official AML Guidance Updated and Approved HM Treasury has given approval to the Legal Sector Affinity Group Anti-Money Laundering Guidance Not... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles July 3, 2022 Data Protection Post-Brexit Last month saw the publication of "Data: a new direction - government response to consultation" whic... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles June 16, 2022 Corporate Transparency – identity verification for company directors Proposals designed to provide a fundamental shake-up of existing processes at Companies House have b... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles June 12, 2022 More SRA Checking of AML Compliance Requirements SRA requiring firms to respond to AML questionnaire covering the levels of current activity within t... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles May 13, 2022 Confidentiality Increasingly, reports of confidentiality breaches are being made to the SRA. With this in mind, the ... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles May 12, 2022 Separate Businesses – New SRA Guidance The obvious attractions of having a separate business - reducing costs enabling savings to be passed... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles April 21, 2022 2022 Updates to the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) Despite it not being well publicised, the Law Society has made some significant changes to the CQS s... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles April 21, 2022 Legislative Responses to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine The crisis in Ukraine has led to a flurry of activity in Parliament. This has included the fast tr... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles March 28, 2022 Solicitors and Cybersecurity The importance of cybersecurity for law firms of all types and sizes cannot be overstated and with t... Read More
Duncan Finlyson Articles February 17, 2022 Delays to the Roll Out of the Trust Registration Service The online registration facility for registering a new trust opened on the 1st September 2021, but t... Read More