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Interesting that the issue of Mr Phillips of the SRA and what he has said about a big firm going under is reported on Legal Futures, but not by the Gazette ? Yet the Gazette have given a lot of coverage of the Slater and Gordon situation.

If as suggested on here, you are leaving it to the market, then fair enough, but having been through Administration, client funds and files, according to the SRA remain the Solicitors responsibility, not the Administrators (even though they will do their best to charge for any involvement in these issues and have been knocked back in a recent court case on this) but more so, the requirements around financial stability must be urgently removed from the regulations, in the interests of all firms, if the SRA are taking the view that for a big firm, this (apparently) is not a breach of the rules, however difficult it may or not be to actually define and demonstrate.

As for Samantha Barrass, then I can still recall that smug photo where she is holding some ribboned documents championing the entry of the Co-Op or whoever into the 'market'. Strange she's been very quiet ever since !

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