Opinion – Page 6
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Tackling money laundering: making sure firms are doing their job
If we don’t successfully address the problem, the social, economic and security consequences can be devastating.
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Cold comfort for beleaguered junior lawyers
Junior Lawyers Division wanted answers on how regulator protects juniors, but the SRA's response provides little in the way of assurance.
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Mind your language
Criticism of the Legal Services Board stems from its poorly worded objectives.
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Chucking out whistleblowers is a bad look for the profession
The tribunal had no option but to strike off Emily Scott. But she should never have been prosecuted in the first place.
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Super regulator brings CPD back from the grave
Absence of specific CPD rules for English and Welsh solicitors either makes us very advanced, very backward, or proves that such rules are irrelevant to our profession.
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Judiciary dragging its feet over McKenzies
Long-awaited reform must be implemented soon to avoid more horror stories.
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Why is judicial misconduct so cloaked in secrecy?
We find out every detail of solicitors’ misdeeds. We’re not even told what judges have done wrong.
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What the UN has to say about the role of bars
The United Nations has published a report that will help set universal standards for bars across the globe.
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Money laundering and terror finance – are you asking the right questions?
It is time to refresh your firm-wide risk assessment
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£4,500 for ‘super-exam’ may be just the tip of the iceberg
We learnt more about SQE this week. But there are still so many unknowns.
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More choice, less protection. How does that benefit consumers?
Some clients who expect the safeguards that come with instructing a solicitor are going to be disappointed.
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NDAs and burdens of being a gatekeeper
The use of NDAs in an employment setting raises that modern scourge of our profession: decision-makers wanting to get at our clients’ behaviour through us.
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When should a lawyer admit to being ill?
Part two in a series on ethical questions raised by the regulatory settlement in KP.
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Platform alteration
Old media are still coming to terms with the effect tech giants are having on freedom of expression and privacy.
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Solicitors and drink driving
What does the SRA do in cases where behaviour is criminal but not deliberate?
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'Put up or shut up' culture under the spotlight
First in a series looking at the roles of firm, lawyer and regulator in the fiercely debated case of KP.
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AML regime is not fit for purpose
Laundered money has continued to pour into the UK in damagingly large quantities. Time for an utterly fresh approach.
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Choice? All we're doing is confusing consumers
Potential clients now have so many options they can’t possibly know which way to turn.
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The LSB’s exercise in futility
Super regulator’s public censure makes absolutely no contribution to the problems lawyers face.