Features – Page 5
-
Feature
Financial regulation: City police
Four years on, the financial services watchdog has yet to convince lawyers representing victims of alleged wrongdoing that it is living up to its rhetoric.
-
Feature
Duplication of enforcement
What happens when two professional bodies receive a virtually identical complaint about a member concerning a breach of their rules, code or principles?
-
Feature
Iran: open door?
Iran is the biggest new market to re-enter the global economy in decades. But foreign businesses and their advisers still face formidable obstacles.
-
Feature
Transparency of legal services
Small businesses and the public are still struggling to access lawyers – here’s what the SRA is doing to share information on prices and firms.
-
Feature
SQE: high standards, more opportunities
Your regulator has set out a fuller picture of how the solicitors of the future might qualify.
-
Feature
SQE: our regulator has listened
There is much to be welcomed in the SRA’s second consultation on reforms to the qualification process.
-
Feature
Education and training: take solicitors’ word for it
As ‘continuing competence’ becomes the mandatory professional development mantra, can the SRA just accept a solicitor’s pledge that they have put in the necessary work?
-
Feature
Shifting the focus back to the solicitor
There is much to like in the new proposed SRA codes of conduct and accounts rules.
-
Feature
How to: prepare for apprenticeships
With trailblazer apprenticeships on the horizon, what do law firms and in-house teams need to consider?
-
Feature
Central exam idea does not add up
Much of what the SRA sees as wrong with the current legal education system is in its own hands to fix.
-
Feature
Competition: raising the anti
Competition policy and enforcement are changing rapidly, with antitrust watchdogs under pressure to get results. What does this mean for lawyers?
-
Feature
Regulation: the end of our profession?
The government must take a holistic approach to reforming the Legal Services Act, says the Law Society’s chief executive.
-
Feature
Education and training: passing muster?
The SRA has set out a radical blueprint to overhaul the education of aspiring solicitors, but many in the profession fear the reforms will dilute standards.
-
Feature
The highs and lows of obtaining an ABS licence
Thorneycroft Solicitors secured its ABS licence two years after first approaching the SRA. Rachel Stow shares the highs and lows of the process
-
Feature
Judicial review of decision on Cage funding
Did the Charity Commission overstep its powers when pressuring two charities to make a funding promise?
-
Feature
PII update: ‘soft’ options
As solicitors experience another benign insurance season, many are unhappy that the regulator has reheated proposals for reform.
-
Feature
NCA in trouble again
Following criticism over its conduct in a high-profile financial crime investigation, the National Crime Agency has come under fire once more.
-
Feature
Legal education: the right road?
Reforming routes to qualification and the role of the regulator.
-
Feature
Financial services: regime change
The Financial Conduct Authority is shifting its emphasis from fining firms to calling to account senior individuals – and that means more work for lawyers.